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Artist, musician are shot to death




By Lisa Sandberg

from the San Antonio Express News 12/15/98



A well-known San Antonio artist and a 25-year-old San Antonio Symphony musician were fatally shot Monday in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide.

San Antonio Police Det. Ramiro Alvear said Mark Horner, a 25-year-old musician who lived in the 300 block of Thorman Place, was shot several times in the midsection shortly after 7:30 p.m. at his home. He died at Brooke Army Medical Center.

"I heard four or five shots. I was sitting by my front window and jumped up," said a neighbor, Paul Vaughn. "Everybody gathered outside."

A witness to the shooting told police he saw a man argue briefly with Horner before shots rang out.

A license plate number, written down by a neighbor, led police to the house of artist Mike Pogue.

Pogue, who lived in the 300 block of Kokomo Avenue in Alamo Heights, was found in his driveway shot once in the head, police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, slumped over in his car.

Shocked neighbors gathered around the artist's home late Monday.

"I'm stunned by it all," said one neighbor, 48, who wished not to be identified.

"Mike was too talented for this to happen," she said.



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