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MIRACLE
M C NARY
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
Remember to
“fall back”
on Sunday
AT
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In what was arguably the of most
he
l
tro
important situation of the
on season,
c
for
es
senior quarterback ea Erik
Barker
rch
s
n
tee
made the biggest izer throw
of his life
e
in his fi nal game K at Flesher Field.
With
1:17
remaining
in
the
contest,
the
McNary
football squad
trailed
West
Salem by a score
of 23-21 with
no
timeouts
and the ball on
their own 35-
yard line facing
second-and-10.
With great
protection from
his offensive line,
Barker
faded
back to pass in a clean pocket,
saw Junior Nunez break open up
KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings
Please see MIRACLE, Page A6
Boy, 7, critically
injured crossing
River Road
A 7-year-old boy crossing
within a crosswalk on River
Road North was severely in-
jured when a car collided with
him on Tuesday, Oct.29.
At 4:53 p.m., offi cers were
dispatched to the intersection of
Sam Orcutt Way Northeast and
River Road North.
Preliminary investigation into
the crash indicated a 30-year-old
woman operating a black 2015
Chevrolet Tahoe was in the
Please see BOY, Page A7
McNary’s Erik Barker dodges a pair of West Salem defenders. The senior quarterback threw for 249 yards and the
game-winning touchdown, helping the Celtics move to 3-0 in Mountain Valley Conference play.
Alleged burglar bitten by K9 while fl eeing
Two
burglars
tried for a second
bite at the same ap-
ple and ended up
in handcuffs Tues-
day, Oct. 22.
On Oct. 21, a
theft from a vehi-
Lara-Alvarez
cle on Clark Ave-
nue Northeast was reported to Keizer
police and the items taken included a
9mm pistol.
The following day, about 1:35 p.m.,
Keizer offi cers responded to a report
of suspicious activity at the same Clark
Avenue address. Offi cers were told two
males had ridden
into the area on bi-
cycles and jumped
over a fence into
the backyard of
a home. As offi -
cers arrived on the
Mercado-Urenda scene, they spotted
two men exiting
the garage of the residence.
The men fl ed on bikes, ignoring the
offi cer’s commands to stop. Additional
offi cers arrived in the area, but the men
had abandoned their bikes and contin-
ued their fl ight on foot. Around the
same time, offi cers entered the home
where the burglary had occurred and
found several fi rearms staged next to
the back door.
The Keizer Police Department K9
team responded to the area to begin
tracking the suspects. One man was
found hiding in a bush in a nearby
backyard on Harcourt Avenue North-
east. He refused to surrender to the
police and was bitten by K9 before be-
ing taken into custody.
Minutes later, the second suspect
was found hiding in a wood pile. He
surrendered without incident.
The two suspects were later
A minute-by-minute account of KPD response to a potential threat at MHS
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Keizer Police Department responded en masse to the report of a possible male with weapons in the parking
lot at McNary High School. No suspect was found after a search that lasted more than an hour, but listening back to offi cers’ radio
conversations with 9-1-1 dispatch and fellow offi cers provided a window into how police responded and the seriousness with which the
event was treated. What follows is a partial timeline of events as they unfolded at the high school and in the surrounding area.
8:24 — Three additional police
vehicles head toward campus.
Police request 9-1-1 dispatchers
contact the school and advise
them of the situation.
8:25 — 9-1-1 dispatchers perform a
scan of the phone number the text
arrived from and learn it hasn’t
been used to contact the police
before. Three officers arrive at
the campus. The school has been
contacted. Additional informa-
tion from the person who sent
the text comes in:
it appeared
to be a
hi gh
school student wearing a
backpack, but the witness could
not discern the race of the suspect.
8:26 — Multiple additional offi-
cers arrive on the scene. Offi cers
station themselves at multiple
access points to the campus
(Lockhaven, Chemawa, Sandy, and
the construction staging area near
St. Edward Catholic Church.) An
additional offi cer arrives on a bike
and begins roaming the campus.
Offi cers begin closing off the drive-
ways to the campus off Chemawa
Road and Lockhaven. An offi cer
requests dispatchers try to call the
number the text was sent from.
The student is identifi ed. Another
officer arrives at the Robindale
access point to campus.
8:27 — Offi cers talk to two construc-
tion workers who say they have not
seen anything. An offi cer inside the
school is trying to locate the class-
room of the student
who contacted
9-1-1. Offi cers
prepare to enter the school and
conduct a search.
8:29 — The parking lot is deemed
clear of threats. Additional offi -
cers are requested at the front of
the school to begin a search. The
school has been placed on a level
2 lockdown.
8:32 — Officers are conducting
visual searches of areas like the
football stadium and around por-
table classrooms. Other offi cers
are working in pairs searching the
hallways inside the school. Offi cers
are still trying to locate the 9-1-1
caller inside the school.
8:35 — Contact is made with the
student who notifi es offi cers where
he is in the building. Officers are
conducting closer searches around
the portable classrooms.
8:39 — Offi cers want to search the
upper levels of the gym and school
security moves to help them enter.
Students found in bathrooms are
taken by officers to classrooms
and locked in.
8:40 — Offi cers locate the 9-1-1 caller in
his classroom and begin interviewing
him. Offi cers believe witness account
and say, “it doesn’t sound like he’s
making this up.”
8:41 — Offi cers begin expanding the
search to areas outside McNary’s cam-
pus. An more detailed description of
the suspect goes out over the police
band: the suspect is a probable teen-
ager of unknown race wearing dark
clothing with a dark blue backpack
and a hood pulled up over his head.
The weapons he was carrying are
thought to have been a baseball bat
and a small rifl e.
8:43 — Offi cers call Keizer Elementary
School and request a level 1 lockdown
as the search widens. An offi cer sta-
tions at the elementary school.
8:48 — More details on the suspect
come in: a younger male adult of aver-
age build. Keizer Elementary moves
from a level 1 lockdown to a secure
alert so that students can be allowed
in the building. School had not yet
begun for the day and cars and kids
were lining up outside the building.
Officers begin discussing moving
McNary from a level 1 lockdown to a
secure alert to allow students to enter
the building. They are confi dent the
suspect had not entered the building
at this point.
8:53 — Two officers are sent to
Cummings Elementary to monitor the
school as students arrive. Cummings
is also put on a level 1 lockdown.
9:02 — An offi cer discovers a black
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INSIDE THE ACTION
8:23 a.m. — A report of a person
running around McNary High
School’s parking lot with two
weapons, is sent to 9-1-1 via text
message. Two Keizer police offi cers
head toward campus.
Fire at
McNary Oaks
hoodie in the stands at the football
fi eld, but he is not certain it’s con-
nected to the incident.
9:08 — A modifi ed level 1 lockdown
takes effect at McNary allowing stu-
dents already on to enter the building,
but no one can leave. Students are
escorted from buses to the school.
McNary administrators are working
on a plan to allow students to move
around while officers remain on
campus.
9:12 — McNary moves to secure alert
status and all traffi c coming into the
school is permitted.
9:14 — An offi cer requests that the
student reporting the incident be
brought out to the parking lot to look
at a vehicle in which a blue backpack
and baseball bat were spotted.
9:15 — Someone from the FBI calls
to inquire whether their assistance is
needed. It’s declined.
9:16 — Regular activities have resumed
and offi cers are beginning to disperse
outward.
9:18 — A 9-1-1 caller on Chehalis
Drive North reports that a boat in
their backyard is moving back and
forth and dogs in the yard are “going
crazy.” Chehalis is two blocks west of
McNary’s campus. Three offi cers head
toward the address.
9:30 — Offi cers fi nd no signs of anyone
in the backyard of the Chehalis address.
Calls regarding the suspicious person
at McNary cease shortly thereafter.
Dungeons and
dragons and
drama at MHS
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Netters
claim
postseason
spot
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