FORMER C-N-N

CORRESPONDENT WAS SHOT IN AN

OVERNIGHT

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AT

AN ALBUQUERQUE MOTEL.

WE BROKE IT FIRST

ON KOAT-DOT-COM.

I JUST GOT OFF THE

PHONE WITH FORMER CNN

ANCHOR AND MANZANO

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE

LYNNE RUSSELL.

SHE TELLS ME SHE AND

HER HUSBAND WHO WAS

ALSO A CORRESPONDDENT

FOR CNN WERE ROBBED AT

GUNPOINT AT AN

ALBUQUERQUE MOTEL LAST NIGHT.

LYNNE SAYS THEY

WERE EXHAUSTED AND

DECIDED TO STOP AT THE

MOTEL TO REST. SHE

WENT OUT TO HER CAR TO

GET SOMETHING WHEN A

MAN WITH A GUN GRABBED

HER AND DRAGGED HER

BACK INTO THE MOTEL

ROOM.

HER HUSBAND GRABBED

HIS GUN. THE TWO

EXHANGED GUNFIRE.

THE SUSPECT WAS SHOT

AND KILLED. LYNNE

SAYS HER HUSBAND CHUCK

DE CARO WAS HIT THREE

TIMES BUT IS GOING TO

BE OKAY.

LYNNE TOLD ME HE

JUST GOT OUT OF

SURGERY.

WE'LL HAVE MORE ON

THIS COMING UP ON

ACTION 7 NEWS AT FIVE,

SIX AND TEN.