CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Investigation of SLA Reportedly Renewed

Citing unnamed sources, the San Francisco Examiner reported that Sacramento-area authorities have renewed the investigation of a 1975 bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army in which a customer was killed. According to the newspaper, the apparent target is former SLA member Emily Harris, now a computer analyst in Los Angeles. In a plea bargain granting her immunity, heiress Patty Hearst identified Emily Harris as the one who shotgunned to death Crocker Citizen Bank customer Myrna Lee Opshal, 42, mother of four, in Carmichael. The SLA kidnaped Hearst from her Berkeley apartment in 1974, and she subsequently joined the terrorist group. Harris was never tried for murder on the basis of Hearst’s identification. But Harris and her then-husband, Bill, were sentenced to prison for kidnaping Hearst and for aiding in the armed robbery of a Inglewood sporting goods store.