SINCE 1979 • VOLUME 40, NO. 36
SECTION A
JUNE 7, 2019
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Sex offender placed
in Gubser-area home
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A registered sex offender being
placed in a Gubser neighborhood
halfway home caused an uproar on
social media last weekend, but a
spokesperson for the Marion County
Sheriff ’s Offi ce (MSCO) said it was the
best option of diffi cult choices.
“As we assess the various housing
options available to our clients, at times
we are faced with the very real decision
of approving a placement versus
having an offender become or
remain homeless,” said Sgt. Jeremy
Landers, of the MCSO Community
Resource Unit. “Homelessness can
create additional challenges to
providing supervision to an offender
residing within the community.”
The individual in question is Philip
Martin Shupp, 30, who is on post-
prison supervision after serving time
for public indecency. Shupp is 6-foot-3,
210 pounds with brown hair and green
eyes. The circumstances leading to his
conviction are not available in online
court records, but Shupp is considered
a Level 3 sex offender meaning he has a
Please see OFFENDER, Page A7
“ At times we are
faced with the
very real decision
of approving a
placement versus
having an offender
become or
remain homeless”
McNary
athletic duo
honored
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— Sgt. Jeremy Landers
Philip Martin Shupp
3 killed Youth sentencing changes concern
victim’s daughter, killer’s sister
in drunk
driving
wreck
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
March 5, 2014, was the
worst day of Dana Pearson’s
life. Her mother was
murdered, her father gravely
injured and her brother and
a friend stood accused of the
crimes.
Brett Angus Pearson and
Robert Daniel Miller are
now serving life sentences for
the crimes with a minimum
of 40 years after pleading
guilty in 2015. Both boys
were 17 years old and using
methamphetamine at the
time of the murder and
planning had taken part over
several weeks, according to
prosecutors.
Dana recently testifi ed
during
the
Oregon
Legislature’s public hearings
on proposed changes to
juvenile sentencing and urged
further consideration before
charging ahead.
“I hope you will consider
not just what a sentence takes
away, but what it gives; the
time it provides for healing.
We are all aware of what it
costs the offender who spends
valuable time in corrections
… His sentence has given
me time to fi gure out how I
move forward, to go grocery
shopping without fearing we
might run in to him today, and
the opportunity to share with
my daughter as we determine
appropriate,” Dana
told
legislators. “Consider the cost
this bill is to future victims,
the requested acceleration
of their healing is a lot to
manage on top of their grief.”
The bill (Senate Bill 1008)
has since passed in a 20-10
Please see SENTENCE, Page A7
Keizer cop
fighting
cancer
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“Consider not just what a sentence
takes away, but what it gives.”
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Palacios
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A man whose blood alco-
hol content tested nearly three
times the legal limit is being
held at the Marion County
Jail on suspicion of causing the
deaths of three Salem-Keiz-
er teenagers as the result of a
motor vehicle collision Sun-
day, June 2.
Salem Police Department
and Salem Fire Department
responded to the report of
a crash at the Salem-Keizer
Parkway and Cherry Avenue
Northeast about 11:30 p.m.
Offi cers arrived to fi nd a
white Toyota Camry and a
black Jeep Wrangler off of the
roadway.
The initial investigation in-
dicates the Jeep was traveling
northeast on Salem Parkway
at a high rate of speed when
Please see WRECK, Page A7
— DANA PEARSON
Simonka
yard gets
makeover
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File
ABOVE: Brett Pearson during court appearances in 2015. Pearson is serving a life sentence with a minimum of 40 years for
the murder of his mother and wounding of his father in 2014. ABOVE RIGHT: Bill and Michelle Pearson.
Heimerdinger says goodbye J to McNary
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
Submitted photo
Jason Heimerdinger was a student a McNary High School, seen here in the mid-1990s doing
video editing on a VCR, before becoming a beloved Celtic teacher.
ason Heimerdinger
has been a staple of
McNary High School for
more than half his life.
As a student, Heimerdinger
graduated from McNary
in 1996 and even served as
senior class president. After
graduating
from
Loyola
Marymount
University,
he came back to Keizer in
2000 to take over the media
production
program
at
McNary, where he has taught
for the last 19 years. He has
also served as the activities
director at the school for 10
of those years.
But
this
summer,
Heimerdinger will begin a
new chapter in his career.
At the end of the school
Please see GOODBYE, Page A7
“ My initial
plan was
not to be
a teacher.
I always
thought I
was going
to work
and produce
content
somehow.”
— Jason Heimerdinger
Booster
auction
raises 40K
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