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Thursday, September 14, 2017
BRIEFLY
Collin Andrew/The Register-Guard
Law enforcement agencies stage along Hwy 99 and Davisson Road
south of Creswell, after an officer involved shooting on Tuesday.
Man charged with
attempted murder in
shooting of OSP trooper
Kathy Plonka/The Spokesman-Review via AP
Ambulances line up in the emergency area of Sacred Heart Hospital following reports of a shoot-
ing at Freeman High School on Wednesday in Rockford, Wash. A shooter opened fire at a the high
school, south of Spokane, killing one student and injuring three others. The injured victims were
taken to a hospital and expected to survive. Authorities say the suspect is in custody.
Officials: Student killed confronting
shooter at Washington high school
BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
ROCKFORD, Wash. — A
student who opened fire in a hallway
at a Washington state high school
killed a classmate who confronted
him Wednesday and wounded three
others before being stopped by a
custodian, authorities said.
The suspect, who a classmate
described as being obsessed with
previous school shootings, was
taken into custody. The wounded
victims were seriously injured but
expected to survive, officials said.
The shooter brought two
weapons to Freeman High School
in Rockford, south of Spokane, but
the first one he tried to fire jammed,
Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie
Knezovich told reporters.
“He went to his next weapon,”
Knezovich said. “A student walked
up to him, engaged him, and that
student was shot. That student did
not survive.”
The sheriff said the shooter fired
more rounds down the hallway,
striking the other students, before
a school custodian approached
the shooter and ordered him to
surrender, Knezovich said.
Knezovich called it a courageous
act that prevented further bloodshed.
The sheriff said a deputy who
works as a school resource officer
arrived shortly thereafter and took
the shooter into custody.
Elisa Vigil, a 14-year-old
freshman, told The Associated Press
that she saw one male student shot
in the head who janitors covered
with a cloth and another female
student wounded in the back.
Michael Harper, a 15-year-old
sophomore, said the suspect had
brought notes in the beginning of
the school year, saying he was going
to do “something stupid” and might
get killed or jailed. Some students
alerted counselors, the teen told
AP, but it wasn’t clear what school
officials did in response.
A call to the school was not
immediately returned.
Harper said the shooter had
many friends and was not bullied,
calling him “nice and funny and
weird” and a huge fan of the TV
show “Breaking Bad.” He also said
the suspect was obsessed with other
school shootings.
Students say the shooter was
armed with a pistol and rifle and
had carried a duffel bag to school.
After shots were fired, students
went running and screaming down
the hallways, Harper said.
Authorities didn’t release the
suspect’s identity or a possible
motive. The victims also were not
named.
Luis Prito, an assistant football
coach at Freeman High, called the
shooting devastating. A vigil took
place Wednesday evening at a
nearby church.
“This is a real close-knit commu-
nity,” he said.
A two-lane road into the town
of about 500 people near the Idaho
border was clogged as worried
parents sped to the school. Some
people abandoned their cars on the
street to make it to their children.
Cheryl Moser said her son, a
freshman, called her from a class-
room after hearing shots fired.
“He called me and said, ‘Mom,
there are gunshots.’ He sounded
so scared. I’ve never heard
him like that,” Moser told The
Spokesman-Review
newspaper.
“You never think about something
happening like this at a small
school.”
Providence
Sacred
Heart
Medical Center and Children’s
Hospital received three pediatric
patients, spokeswoman Nicole
Stewart said. They were in stable
condition and surrounded by family,
she said.
Stephanie Lutje told AP she was
relieved to hear her son was safe
after his high school near Freeman
High was put on lockdown. She
commended the school district for
its communication.
“It’s been amazing, within
probably 15-20 minutes of hearing
about it, I’d already received a
phone call, I’d already received
a text message saying that their
school is OK,” she said.
She still worried for others she
knew, including a co-worker who
had yet to hear from her son, a
sophomore at Freeman.
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death of boyfriend
KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — A
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Year’s Day shooting death of her
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The Herald and News reports
Kassandra Imbert pleaded no contest
Tuesday to negligently causing the
death of Tyler Balais.
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PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
72° 50°
76° 49°
66° 42°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
74° 42°
73° 39°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
78°
79°
97° (1948)
57°
51°
28° (1921)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
Trace
0.20"
11.37"
7.69"
8.58"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
79°
80°
94° (2009)
57°
49°
33° (2014)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.00"
0.15"
6.65"
5.40"
6.27"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
77° 53°
6:32 a.m.
7:08 p.m.
12:20 a.m.
3:43 p.m.
Full
Last
Spokane
Wenatchee
67/44
73/49
Tacoma
Moses
72/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 75/47
67/40
72/46
74/39
77/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
77/43
71/46 Lewiston
73/43
Astoria
72/47
71/46
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
76/51
Pendleton 60/39
The Dalles 74/42
70/44
78/49
La Grande
Salem
65/38
76/47
Albany
Corvallis 76/44
76/46
John Day
65/41
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
73/53
73/44
65/38
Caldwell
Burns
73/51
63/32
Sep 27
Oct 5
Oct 12
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
86
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87
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WINDS
Medford
74/46
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and
sun today, except low clouds followed by
sunshine in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cooler today
with times of clouds and sun. Clear tonight.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy in the north, near
the Idaho border and in the mountains today; partly
sunny in the south, the Cascades and central sections.
Cascades: Clouds and sun today; cooler
in the south. Clear tonight. Partly sunny
tomorrow.
Northern California: A t-storm in spots in
the interior mountains today; clouds, then
sun at the coast. Sunshine in central parts.
Today
Friday
NNE 4-8
WNW 6-12
N 6-12
NNW 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Western Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today. Clear tonight.
Sep 19
70° 46°
Seattle
73/52
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
74° 45°
Today
MONDAY
Cooler; rain in the
afternoon
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CORVALLIS (AP) — An
Oregon man who seriously injured
his 7-year-old son in a lawn-mowing
mishap has been sentenced to
probation and must surrender his
driver’s license for five years.
The Gazette-Times reports Peter
McManus of Corvallis was also
ordered to undergo alcohol treatment
and serve 20 days on a county work
crew.
Authorities say McManus
was driving a lawn mower while
intoxicated on April 3. The boy was
sitting on the hood of the machine
when it hit something, possibly a
rock. The child fell and his foot was
severed by the blade. The foot could
not be saved.
McManus pleaded guilty to
third-degree assault. He did not
speak at Tuesday’s hearing.
The boy’s mother spoke, asking
for leniency. She said her son has
been fitted with a prosthesis and
spent the summer as a “happy and
energetic child.”
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Forecast
Man sentenced for
injuring son in drunken
lawn mower mishap
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
EUGENE (AP) — The man
arrested in the shooting of an Oregon
State Police trooper has been
charged with attempted murder.
Court records show 30-year-old
Edward Dungan of Creswell also
faces charges of felon in possession
of a firearm, unauthorized use of a
vehicle and reckless driving.
Lane County prosecutors say
Trooper Gerald Ellis was shot
Tuesday afternoon in Creswell
after having pulled over a stolen
Toyota Camry. His injuries were not
considered life-threatening.
Dungan was arraigned
Wednesday in Eugene and a
preliminary hearing is set for next
week. Court records do not list the
name of a defense attorney.
from a gunshot wound to the head.
Witnesses provided conflicting
opinions about Imbert’s combat-
iveness. Balais’s mother told the
court that Imbert had once struck
her over the head with a wine bottle.
But former sheriff’s deputy Laurie
Kimmell said she met Imbert several
times in jail and the woman has a
tender heart.
Klamath County Judge Dan
Bunch said alcohol was the real
enemy in the shooting.
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
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showers t-storms
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rain
20s
flurries
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snow
ice
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warm front stationary front
110s
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National Summary: Showers and storms will extend from the mid-Atlantic to Florida today.
Rain and mountain snow will accompany a press of colder air over the northern Rockies,
while heat builds over much of the Central states.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 109° in Needles, Calif.
Low 29° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Louisville
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Memphis
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Miami
90
Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
80
New Orleans
88
New York City
78
Oklahoma City
92
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
81
Phoenix
100
Portland, ME
78
Providence
81
Raleigh
82
Rapid City
80
Reno
81
Sacramento
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St. Louis
87
Salt Lake City
81
San Diego
75
San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 80
Wichita
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