The Nation - News from July 12, 1987

A 69-year-old woman and two of her sons pleaded not guilty to charges that they fatally shot three police officers during a 10-hour siege at a motel in Inkster, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. The slain officers had gone to the Bungalow Motel to deliver a warrant on a bounced check. The three defendants, who said they had acted in self-defense, were charged with three counts of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison, and were held without bail.