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Fire department: Will need to offi cially
secure location before applying for grants
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Gunman checked each
aisle, shot babies at
point-blank range
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — The
gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town
Texas church went aisle to aisle looking for vic-
tims and shot crying babies at point-blank range,
a couple who survived the attack said.
Rosanne Solis and Joaquin Ramirez were sit-
ting near the entrance to the First Baptist Church
on Sunday when they heard what sounded like
fi recrackers and realized someone was shooting
at the tiny wood-frame building.
Solis said congregants began screaming and
dropped to the fl oor. She could see bullets fl y-
ing into the carpet and fellow worshippers falling
down, bloodied, after getting hit.
For a moment, the attacked seemed to stop,
and worshippers thought that police had arrived
to confront the gunman. But then he entered the
church and resumed “shooting hard” at helpless
families, Solis said.
The gunman checked each aisle for more vic-
tims, including babies who cried out amid the
noise and smoke, Ramirez said.
The couple survived by huddling close to the
ground and playing dead. Solis was shot in the
arm. Ramirez was hit by shrapnel.
“The lord saved me because I know it was my
last day,” Solis told the station.
About 20 other people were wounded. At
least fi ve were still hospitalized today.
Investigators collected at least 15 empty mag-
azines that held 30 rounds each at the scene, sug-
gesting the assailant fi red at least 450 rounds.
The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, had a
history of domestic violence that spanned years
before the attack and was able buy weapons
because the Air Force did not submit his criminal
history to the FBI as required by military rules.
If Kelley’s past offenses had been properly
shared, they would have prevented him from
buying a gun, the Air Force acknowledged.
Trump says tougher
gun laws not answer
after Texas shooting
SEOUL, South Korea — President Don-
ald Trump says tougher gun laws would not
have prevented a mass shooting at a south Texas
church, arguing that more restrictions might have
led to more casualties.
Trump spoke at a news conference in South
Korea today where he was asked about “extreme
vetting” for gun purchases. Trump said: “If you
Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman
Meredith Cooper, of San Antonio, Texas,
and her 8-year-old daughter, Heather, visit
a memorial of 26 metal crosses near First
Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs.
did what you’re suggesting, there would have
been no difference three days ago and you might
not have had that very brave person who happens
to have a gun or a rifl e in his trunk.”
As he did following last month’s Las Vegas
massacre of 58 people, Trump pushed back
against the question, calling it a “situation that
probably shouldn’t be discussed too much” and
noted that he was “in the heart of South Korea.”
Trump added that if the Good Samaritan
didn’t have a gun, “instead of having 26 dead,
you would have had hundreds more dead.”
The dead ranged in age from 18 months to 77
years old.
In Seoul, Trump calls for
N. Korea to ‘make a deal’
SEOUL, South Korea — In a striking shift
of tone, President Donald Trump abandoned his
aggressive rhetoric toward North Korea today,
signaling a willingness to negotiate as he urged
Pyongyang to “come to the table” and “make a
deal.”
Trump, in his fi rst day on the Korean
peninsula, again pushed Pyongyang to aban-
don its nuclear weapons program, but sidelined
apocalyptic threats for an optimistic note, say-
ing confi dently, if vaguely, that “ultimately, it’ll
all work out.” And while he said the United
States would use military force if needed, he
expressed his strongest inclination yet to deal
with rising tensions with Pyongyang through
diplomacy.
“It makes sense for North Korea to come to
the table and make a deal that is good for the peo-
ple of North Korea and for the world,” Trump
said during a news conference alongside South
Korean president Moon Jae-in. “I do see certain
movement.”
Trump said he’s seen “a lot of progress” in
dealing with North Korea though he stopped
short of saying whether he wanted direct diplo-
matic talks.
be able to respond to it, which we wouldn’t
be able to do if the fi re station was under 8
feet of water here,” Fennerty said at an Octo-
ber meeting at the current station. “It’s kind
of a no-brainer from our point of view to fi nd
a place we can operate from, in comparison
to a place that is going to be destroyed.”
But the department will need to offi cially
secure the location before it can apply for
grants .
Multiple court challenges
The new station would occupy roughly 2
acres owned by Gary Aspmo, of Astoria, and
his family.
In 2005, Aspmo received a waiver to
move forward with a 30-lot housing devel-
opment. The waiver was based on Measure
37, approved by Oregon voters in 2004 to
allow property owners to claim compensa-
tion for reduced property value as a result of
environmental or land use regulations.
Voters largely repealed it, though, in
2007 by passing Measure 49. That mea-
sure eventually forced Aspmo to seek per-
mission from the Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners for a Measure 49 vesting.
Commissioners approved the vesting in Jan-
uary 2016, offering a nod for development,
but limiting the number of housing lots to
15.
Throughout the process, the develop-
ment has been challenged multiple times in
court by the state Department of Land Con-
servation and Development and the Ore-
gon Shores Conservation Coalition — a
nonprofi t that seeks to preserve land on the
coast.
Aspmo, in an email to state offi cials
in 2016, said he would lose money on his
more than $500,000 investment if he is not
allowed to sell at least 15 lots, plus one for
the fi re department.
“I’m in it so deep now, I’m trying to get
myself out of it,” Aspmo said at the Octo-
ber meeting.
But the state and the conservation coali-
tion have argued that the county did not have
the legal right to alter the number of lots and
that Aspmo is only entitled to build on a
maximum of three lots.
“We are very in favor of development and
developing in the cities, but outside of the
cities, that’s where the conservation comes
in,” state Land Conservation and Develop-
ment Manager Matthew Crall said.
The state Court of Appeals is the latest
to hear the case, which was dismissed by
Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Cindee
Matyas in March.
Since the legally awkward transition
between the two ballot m easures , the state
has challenged a number of similar cases,
and the Aspmos’ development plans repre-
sent the fi nal part of the fallout.
“It would have never been allowed prior
to the Measure 37 ruling,” Oregon Shores
Conservation Coalition Executive Direc-
tor Phillip Johnson said. “They’re trying to
do something wrong because forest lands
should remain forest lands, but the issue gets
down to whether you have vested rights.”
Both Johnson and Crall said the fi re
department’s relocation is unrelated to their
legal arguments in the ongoing court case.
County exemption needed
Aspmo’s most recent solution came soon
after the county commissioners’ ruling last
year. He reached out to the fi re department to
gauge its interest in developing on the prop-
erty, which turned out to be strong.
The department’s move there may be
a basis for arguing that the land could be
legally switched from forestry to residential
agricultural, which would require an excep-
tion from the county.
“The bar for re zoning is set very, very
high because the state is committed to pre-
serving resource lands, agriculture and for-
est lands and so on,” County Planning Man-
ager Will Caplinger said , adding that an
argument involving the fi re station could
also be tricky.
“You need to demonstrate that there’s no
other location in the county that can accom-
modate this kind of a use,” Caplinger said.
“That’s very, very tough to do.”
After Aspmo submits a lengthy appli-
cation to the county planning department,
a months long review will require approval
from the county Planning Commission and
Board of Commissioners.
Since very little land is available that is
centrally located and not in a designated tsu-
nami zone, the fi re department hopes devel-
opment will be allowed, Fire Chief Jeff
Golightly wrote in a May 2016 email to con-
servation coalition Director Jim Rue.
“If the state is truly concerned with miti-
gation of potential tsunami damage, we hope
you will reconsider your opposition to this
development,” Golightly wrote.
But whether development will be allowed
even after the county’s process is still
unclear.
“We will be scrutinizing that with a gim-
let eye,” Johnson said.
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