The State - News from May 21, 1987

An Oakland prosecutor has urged that a man accused of murdering six people as they slept be shackled during his upcoming court appearances. Deputy Dist. Atty. Jeff Stark told Municipal Judge Vernon Moore that the defendant, David Welch, has a history of assaulting guards during previous confinements in state and county prisons and that he attacked two deputies May 12 when they were removing a food tray from his cell. Stark also said that in one previous court hearing, Welch threw a water pitcher at a judge. Moore set a hearing June 9 on the request for increased security. Welch and a co-defendant, Rita Lewis, are accused of entering a private home Dec. 8 and shooting two women, two men and two children to death.