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Kuhns noted fellow deputy
district attorney Joe Hollander
worked with the defense on
the case.
“We had issues in the
case in regards to the poten-
tial theory of self-defense,”
Kuhns said. “This was a very
quick resolution to the case.
Mr. Madrid accepted his guilt.
Ms. Rieder did a good job of
communicating with us.”
Kuhns, who is not related
to deputy chief Jeff Kuhns
with the Keizer Police De-
partment, credited the KPD
for helping bring fast resolu-
tion to the case.
“It is unusual to have such
a quick turnaround in a case
like this,” Kuhns said. “A lot
of it is due to the quick and
thorough investigation by the
Keizer Police Department. A
lot of the credit goes to them.”
Rieder also gave credit to
the DA’s office for the speedy
handling of the case.
“It’s because of the willing-
ness of the DA’s office to en-
gage in productive discussions
and to be forthcoming with
the information we needed to
make an informed decision,”
Rieder said.
During the court hearing,
Madrid stood behind a clear
partition as Day addressed
him.
Madrid confirmed he was
pleading guilty to the two
counts.
“On March 21 you pos-
sessed a firearm and shot it,
causing serious injury to an-
other person,” Day said to
Madrid. “Is that what you
did?”
“Yes,” Madrid replied.
According to a probable
cause statement, Anderson was
alerted to Madrid being in the
Bi-Mart parking lot on March
21 and went to meet with him
in regards to the $1,400 he
had given the suspect to pur-
chase methamphetamine that
had not been received.
The affidavit stated Madrid
opened the front passenger
door of the sports utility ve-
hicle he was in and shot An-
derson once. Madrid dropped
the revolver and fled the
scene, while medics with the
Keizer Fire District responded
and transported Anderson to
Salem Hospital for treatment
of his gunshot wound.
The revolver used by Ma-
drid was visible at the scene
after KPD officers secured the
crime location.
Madrid ran north on River
Road and attempted to hide
in JC’s Pizzaria when KPD of-
ficers entered the building and
arrested him minutes after the
shooting.
As has been mentioned
previously in the Keizertimes,
Madrid and Anderson weren’t
strangers to each other, nor
have they been strangers to
law enforcement personnel
over the years.
Anderson was arrested in
1986 for theft in Polk Coun-
ty and was also indicted for
manufacturing and delivery of
a controlled substance. There
were also possession of con-
trolled substance charges from
the same time period.
Court records also show
two unauthorized use of ve-
hicle charges for Anderson in
Linn County in 1988, plus
multiple counts of manufac-
turing, delivery and posses-
sion of controlled substance
charges in Marion County in
1994. There were charges of
speeding (1996) and follow-
ing too closely (1998) before
possession of marijuana and
methamphetamine charges in
Marion County in 2009.
Madrid’s legal troubles
started with a minor in posses-
sion of alcohol charge in 2003.
His first drug charge was for
methamphetamine in 2006,
followed by methamphet-
amine and marijuana charges
in 2008, delivery and manu-
facturing of drugs in 2011
and possession and delivery of
methamphetamine in 2013.
Crane said Portland and
Eugene will both have about
90 percent totality of seeing
the eclipse, but Keizer will be
at 100 percent.
“There are hotels in Port-
land already blocked out and
going for $600 a night,” Crane
said. “It won’t be back for hun-
dreds of years. Our hotel here
is figuring what to do to meet
demand. They have 86 rooms.
The last time it happened, it
was off a rocky island in Eng-
land and they had 40,000
people. The potential for us
is huge. There is no limit. As a
group we’re looking at how to
get large spaces like Volcanoes
Stadium, the hotel or Keizer
Rapids Park as viewing sites.”
Dieker said a half-mara-
thon is being planned the day
before, but noted there are still
some decisions to make.
“In June we’re having a
community
conversation
about the total eclipse,” she
said. “We want all stakehold-
ers to come to this, to look at
what plans we have to make
and what precautions we need
to make. It will be the largest
event Keizer has ever hosted
with visitors.”
Clark expressed excitement
over the deal.
“We’re happy to be a part-
ner in this,” the mayor said.
“This is an opportunity for
our community to shine. We
will be talking about how to
do a community conversation
and get it scheduled as soon as
possible. I’m looking forward
to this great time.”
Dieker said next year’s
Keizer Iris Festival already has
a theme: Total Eclipse.
In other business Monday:
• Bruce Anderson was
sworn in as the newest mem-
ber of the Keizer City Council.
Anderson, joined at the meet-
ing by wife Lori and their two
sons, was the only person who
applied for the seat vacated in
March by Brandon Smith.
• Krina Lee, executive di-
rector of the Salem-Keizer
Education Foundation, was
on hand to promote Lemon-
ade Day on Sunday, May 1.
The national event started in
Texas in 2007 and came to the
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Above: (From left) Jerry Crane, Christine Dieker and Danielle
Bethell talk at Monday’s Keizer City Council meeting.
Below: Bruce Anderson is sworn in as Keizer’s new city
councilor on Monday.
Salem-Keizer area in 2014.
SKEF is hosting Lemonade
Day for students throughout
Keizer and Salem, encourag-
ing them to participate in the
program designed to cultivate
budding entrepreneurs. Stu-
dents throughout both cit-
ies will be creating their own
businesses, marketing them
and opening for business on
May 1, with help and men-
torship from business people
around the community.
Lee shared a story of third
graders wanting to use organic
lemons, only to discover the
higher cost of such lemons.
“I watched 10 third graders
debate ethics over a commit-
ment to organic lemons,” she
said. “They debated it like you
would in a board room. They
said they were not going to
compromise their budget or
their commitment, so they
went and got a sponsor. They
went to the Oregon Farm
Bureau. Have we all not been
there? But have we been there
as third graders?”
• Bill Lawyer, Public Works
director for Keizer, noted the
portion of McLeod Lane be-
tween Lockhaven Drive and
Chemawa Road will be closed
for a few weeks.
“McLeod between Che-
mawa and Lockhaven is now
closed for rebuilding,” Lawyer
said. “It will be widened and
paved from the church (Coun-
tryside Christian Church) to
Chemawa.”