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Page A2 July 21, 1999 ÏFlje ißurthuih (ffhsvruvr P O L IC E N E W S E R 5 C R IM E S T O P P Hit-and-Run Worries Road Construction Workers • The recent death of a member of a highway construction crew on I S is a reminder of the danger Inherent in the Job WANTED SUBJECT The Portland Police Bureau, in cooperation w ith t'rim e Stoppers, is asking for your help in locating and apprehending Avery Lydell Holloway A rrest w arrants are on file charging H ollow ay w ith F elo n y Possession o f a Firearm , P arole V iolation, and A ttem pt E lude »o Police H ollow ay is k n o w n to frequent N orth and N ortheast Portland. He should be considered B i P < y 4 T ims of T u t O kf <. u \ k ' s n n T U A L A T IN — T h e h it-a n d -ru n arm ed an d dangerous. ., , . ... A very Lydell H ollow ay is a 30-year-old black m ale, w ith a date o fb irth o f July 24 1968. He is describ ed as a 6 ’4 tall, w eighing 195 pounds, w ith b ro w n eyes and black hair. H ollow ay has a scar on his back, right finger traffic d eath o f a freew ay c o n s tru c tio n w o rk er late W e d n e sd a y h a s p o lice se a rc h in g fo r a su s p e c t, an d o th er crew m e m b e rs w o n d e rin g if an d ch in , a pierced left ear, and a tattoo on his right arm . C rim e Stoppers is offering a cash rew ard o f up to $ 1,000 for inform ation, reported to C n m e Stoppers, w hich leads to an arrest in this case or any unsolved felony cn m e and you can rem ain anonym ous. C all C n m e Stoppers they m ay be next. S tate p olice ask ed for th e p u b lic 's help in finding the d riv e r o f a car described by w itn esses as a late ’70s w hite F ord B ro n co w ith large tires at (503) 823-HELP. Man Held in Serial Killings Continued CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE force m em b ers h ad kept a 2 4 -h o u r su rv eillan ce on R eed, w h o lived w ith a g irlfrien d in a g ray , sin g le-fam ily h o m e in the 3400 b lo ck o f N orth “ H e w as the quietest one on the block," said Elijah C ochran, w ho lives next door. "Y ou know , he didn t bother C o m m ercial A venue. A bout 7:30 p.m . Sunday, after he you, and you didn t bother him. R achel T o m lin said she alw ay s th o u g h t o f him as a fam ily m an. " I t’s had gone to w ork , p o lice carried ou t a search w arrant at the hom e and tow ed aw ay his black M itsubishi E clipse p arked in front o f the house. The search w arrant records w ere sealed. Thursday, his parole officer noted that Reed appeared tired, and theofficeragain instructed Reed to get a polygraph. P o lice said th ey re c eiv ed ab o ut 6 0 0 tips as th ey in v estig ated th e k ill ings — so m e from p ro stitu tes, the eerie. I ju s t d o n ’t u n d erstan d how no one h ere co u ld have noticed. R eed got divorced in N ovem ber 1997 after a nine-year marriage ; his ex- H e w as arrested as he w as about to unlock his bicycle and leave w ork in the m iddle o f his night shift at R inella P roduce on S outheast A lder Street. * ‘H e got a call from his girlfriend, and v ic tim s’ friends an d o th ers. Worries on dangerous s treets The arrest brought slight relief at Rose H aven, a center for hom eless w om en in O ld Town. H om eless advo w ife has custody o f their tw o sons, ages 8 and 11, but they visited him regularly. H e w as behind bars from N ovember 1992 until N ovember 1995 for first- degree attempted rape and violating the conditions o f a pnor first-degree bur glary conviction from Gresham, accord all o f a sudden he w ent over to his bike to leave, and the police got him ," owner Dave Rinella said, pointing out the black bicycle still chained to the fence. A t Rinella, w here he worked five nightsaw eekloadm gproduce.his bosses described him as punctual and reliable. “ H e w as o n e o f the b etter o n es," said F red P ittm an , a m an ag er. “ Y ou n ev er w o u ld hav e know n. H e lo oked very harm less. H e lo o k ed k in d o f like a n erd y gu y , w ith th ick g lasses an d strin g y b ro w n h air." R eed liked to read science fiction and fantasy books and w ould talk about them with co-w orkers. The only un usual thing co-workers noticed was when cates expressed gratitude for tenacious police work, renew ed sadness for the deaths o f the w om en, cautious opti m ism that the right m an had been caught and extrem e frustration that Portland s ing to the Department o f Corrections. Eight years of supervision After his release, he was ordered to serve eight years o f post-prison supervi sion, including sex-offender treatment for the attempted rape, w hich involved a knife used against a 24-year-old woman, said M aggie Miller, spokeswom an for M ultnom ahCountyCommunity Justice. F or the m ost part, his supervision w as routine, and during the past sev eral years he had m ade required con tact w ith his parole officer m ore than 200 times. B ut he w as kicked out o f sex-offender treatm ent tw o w eeks ago for failing to attend. M iller said. A t that point, parole officials knew he w as a he w ent into a panic about a m onth ago because he feared he had lost his wallet. O n his N orth Portland block, neigh bors reacted w ith surprise and disbe suspect in the Forest Park case. “Hewasalwaysnoncompliantin treat m e n t and (his parole officer) was always trying to keep him in treatm ent" Miller lie f M onday. R eed m ostly kept to him self, they said, b u t they som etim es saw him barbecuing on his frontporch, riding his 10-speed bicy cle or sp en d said. He also had repeatedly failed to get a polygraph test that was required rou tinely as part o f his sex-offender treat ment. During his most recent hom e visit and hig h -b ack seats. T ith M ao, 29, o f O lym pia, d ied o f injuries suffered w hen the northbound car struck him at approxim ately 11:45 p.m. ju st south o f the N y b erg S treet overpass on Interstate 5. M ao 's death brings to six the n u m ber o f construction crew m em bers and m otorists killed in w ork zones this year. The m ost recent incident prior to W ednesday ’ s occurred tw o w eeks ago, m o st d angerous o ccupation in the U n ite d S ta te s , a c c o rd in g to th e L ab o rer's H ealth an d Safety Fund o f N orth A m erica. Since 1994, accord ing to the fund, the risk o f death is seven tim es higher for highw ay w orkers than forav erag e w orkers. T he risk of injury is 66 percent greater, the fund reported. O reg o n ’s O ccupational Safety and H ealth D i vision’s num bers indicate that the occupation ranks at least am ong the 10 m ost dangerous in the state, said Steve C orson, a division spokesm an. L arry C h ristian so n , w ho c o o rd i n a te s th e T ra n s p o r ta tio n D e p a rtm e n t’s w o rk -zo n e safety e f fort, said m ost o f th ese crashes can be a ttrib u te d to d riv ers m ak in g the w ro n g ch o ices, w h eth er it is d riving w h ile im paired, d riv in g aggressively o r failing to pay atten tio n . “W e d o n ’t regard this latest occur rence as an accident,” Christianson said. for w hile flag g in g traffic, sh e said. “ E veryone is alw ays late, an d it’s alw ays our fault," said C hris M artinez, 33, a crew m em b er em p lo y ed by B ergeson B oese & A ssociates Inc. of W ilsonville. “ Itse e m s like it’s getting w orse alm ost by the d ay .” M artinez said he w as alm ost struck on the last jo b by a speeding car driven by a laughing motorist. The teen-age driver, later apprehended by police, said he j ust felt like m ow ing dow n the traffic- slow ing cones M artinez had set out. “ W h en y o u ’re o u t h ere, th ere is alw ay s o n e th in g to keep in m in d ,” M artin ez said. “ N ev er tak e y o u r eyes o f f th e traffic. N e v e r.” B eforeW ednesdaynight’saccident, num erous w itnesses reported that the vehicle w as w eaving across lanes on Interstate 205 and then Interstate 5. It veered from the freew ay’s right lane into the closed-offcenter lane as crew s applied striping to freshly ‘‘T his w as a preventable applied asphalt ju s t be incident that could have DANGEROUS WORK fore m idnight. been avoided.” Highway co nstru ction w ork is T h e d riv er, d e scrib ed O n Thursday, traffic risky business. as a m an in h is late 20s • Highway work zone fatalities in flaggers throughout the U.S. since 1984: more than 10.0U0 w ith shaggy dark h air cut area recounted their own • D eaths in Oregon work zones a b o v e th e e a rs , sp e d near-misses as road con since 1 98 5 : 166 aw ay an d last w as seen • Fatalities in Oregon work zones struction season— and in 1 9 9 7 :2 1 : in 1 9 9 8 :1 4 ; so far n o rth b o u n d o n 1-5. the anger it sparks in th is year: 6 “W e know from wit fru strated drivers — Source Oregon Dept o f Transportation ness reports that the car w as m oves into full swing. traveling m uch faster on I- P enny N icholas,41, 205 than the posted65 m ph speed limit,” a flagger for J . P. C onstruction ofB end, said state police L t G regg Hastings, helped shepherd cars past a W est Linn spokesman for the O regon State Police. intersection w here a new fight pole is ‘ ‘ It was apparently having di fficultv main going in. taining a lane o f travel on 1-5, too. O nly a few hours earlier, she said, a M em bers o f the public had p honed w om an driving a van loaded w ith chil in ab o u t 30 tips as o f T h u rsd ay a fte r dren knocked dow n all eight bright- noon, H astin g s said. orange traffic cones — and blithely “W hether from intoxication or fa kept going as if nothing had happened. tigue, there appears to be som e type o f “ W e understand the frustration of im pairm ent involved," H astings said. waiting, because w e all want to get home " W e ’ve got a lot o f w ork ahead o f us." toourow n families tonight,'' said Nicho w hen D ebra A nn C ousins, 44. w as struck and killed w hile flagging traffic on O regon 730 about five m iles east o f B oardm an in Eastern O regon. Safety in construction zones is be coming a prim e concern for state Trans portation Department officials, as well as for the workers w ho m ust stand only inches from long fines o f frustrated driv en; winding their w ay through the height streets still are dangerous. o f the sum m er road construction season. A m a th a S a e n z , 18, w h o w as “T here’s not a person out here w ho friends w ith Iso n , has n o t b een lo isn ’t scared m ost o f the tim e,” said cated sin ce she w as rep o rted m issing Shaw n C urtis, 21, w ho has flagged n early th ree w eek s ago. R elatives o f the v ictim s said they traffic for five m onths for K .M . Ser w ere p leased w ith th e arrest and vices o f V ancouver, W ash. "E v en on p led g ed to follow R e e d ’s case as it the best days, w e get a lot o fsw earin g ." O fficials had hoped a law passed by w in d s th ro u g h court. the 1995 L egislature doubling fines for “ I’m relievedthatthey finally caught las, a seven-year veteranofthejob. ‘ ‘W hat w e don’t understand is the rudeness." H er com pany w as alarm ed enough someone, ’saidSusan Ison, Alexandna s traffic violations in construction zones mother. Police called Ison about 6 a.m. w ould be enough. B ut, they said, m o M onday to tell her. "T h ere’s no justifi torists consistently ignore the penalties cation for what happened, but I w ant to and seem to drive faster each year. “ Everyone is on edge today,” said know how it happened. A nd. I w ant to b y the tw o re cen t co n stru ctio n zone d e a th s to call an areaw id e safety m e etin g o f all flag g ers, she said. T he m eetin g , sched u led to b e held in P o rt lan d in three w eek s, w ill cover acci- d en t p rev en tio n an d w h at to look o u t see this guy, face to face. 1 w ant to see R on Scheele, a spokesm an for the O r this to the end, and 1 w ant to m ake sure egon D epartm ent o f Transportation. “Everybody is pretty shook upabout it.” justice is served." H ighw ay construction now is the Stephanie R ussell’s father, Robert O fficials at W estlin e C o n stru c tion o f O ly m p ia said they d id n o t know w hen em ployees w ould resum e w ork at the 1-5 p a v in g site. A spokeswom an, w ho declined to give her name, said M ao had worked for the com pany for 10 years. His death marks the first time a W estline employee has died in a construction zone, she said. Russell, said he felt in his heart that police had caught the real killer. “It d oesn't bring Stephanie back, but it gives m e peace that no one else will get killed and that Stephanie can rest,” he said. "T he police have been real heroes. I salute them for w hat th ey 'v e done." ing tim e w ith his tw o sons. With FHA's new higher loan limits, City Announces Arts and Heritage Grant Program $30,000 for arts and hentage efforts w ill be available for the rem ainder o f 1999 with the introductionoftheC ity o f V ancouver’s Cultural Plan grants pro gram. The funding is intended as an incubator ofarts and heritage endeavors that benefit citizens countyw ide It is available to tax-exem pt nonprofit orga nizations, public and tax-supported or ganizations, private organizations and individuals. G rants will be available in am ounts from $ 1,000 to $ 10,000. Cultural Services has scheduled two inform ational w orkshops for prospec tive grant applicants. T hey w ill b e held program Cultural Commission m em bers, w ho recently completed a Cultural Plan with eight goals, see the grant pro gram as a major accomplishment in sup port for arts and heritage efforts that contribute significantly to a vibrant cul tural atmosphere. Applicants should focus on one o r m ore Cultural Plan’s goals, w hich are: public art, hentage resources, arts facilities, diversity, edu cation, development and redevelopment. award cycle for 2000 will begin in Janu ary, with applications due March 1. For more info, call Pam Brokaw, Cultural Services manager, a t696-8297. Open Houses C lark C ounty is proposing nine changes to its Arterial Atlas, the m ap o f T uesday, July 27, from 10A .M .-noon. Providing funding for arts and heri potential m ajor roadw ays that are part o f its long-range transportation system. The county is holding a series o f open houses to give citizens a chance to find out m ore about the proposals and to offer com m ents about them. 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