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School shooting victims tried to stop gunman
SANTA FE, TEXAS (AP)
— At least two of the student
victims of a mass shooting at
a Texas high school tried to
block the advance of a gun-
man and were killed when he
shot through the doors.
A classmate of one of the
10 people killed at a Texas
high school says Chris Stone
and other students tried to
barricade the door to their art
classroom. Christian Riley
Garcia’s pastor says the
15-year-old student used his
body to keep a closet door
closed within the room.
Eight of the 10 people
fatally shot Friday were stu-
dents. The other two, Glenda
Perkins and Cynthia Tisdale,
were substitute teachers.
At least 13 others were
injured in the attack at the high
school in Santa Fe, about 30
miles southeast of Houston.
A 17-year-old student, Dimi-
trios Pagourtzis, is being held
on capital murder charges.
Here are some of the sto-
ries of the victims:
CHRISTIAN
RILEY GARCIA
Garcia described him-
self as a history junkie who
wanted to join the Army.
Student Jai Gillard, a
14-year-old freshman, tells
The Associated Press that
Garcia always sat next to her
in art class, and had asked her
on a date recently.
Gillard says that after they
heard gunshots and smelled
gunpowder on Friday, she
and Garcia and other students
piled into a closet. She says
that Garcia used his body as a
“barricade” against the closet
door to keep the shooter from
entering.
Pastor Keenan Smith said
law enforcement told Gar-
cia’s parents that Garcia was
shot through the door he
was guarding. He said that
because of Garcia’s “sacrifice,
others were saved.”
KIMBERLY VAUGHAN
Vaughan was a Girl Scout
with a penchant for red hair
dye.
After the shooting Friday,
Vaughan’s mother, Rhonda
Hart, urged people to contact
their elected representatives.
A former U.S. Army water-
craft operator, Hart called for
gun control, saying “we need
to protect our kids.”
GLENDA PERKINS
Perkins for years had been
a substitute teacher at Santa
Fe High School, where her
grandchildren are students.
Student Jay Mann, a junior,
tells the Houston Chroni-
cle that Perkins always had
a smile on her face, took the
time to learn students’ names
and became part of the fabric
of the school.
ANGELIQUE RAMIREZ
The senior pastor at Day-
spring Church says Ramirez
was a member of the Santa Fe
church’s youth ministry.
Pastor Brad Drake says
she had occasionally accom-
panied a younger brother to
the ministry at the church
where her parents are among
the some 150 people to attend
Sunday services.
JARED BLACK
Black turned 17 on
Wednesday and was looking
forward to a party this week-
end at his family’s just-pur-
chased, above-ground swim-
ming pool.
An older brother, Anthony,
from Odessa, Texas, was plan-
ning to visit with his wife and
kids. Jared also had a younger
brother, Houston, 13.
SHANA FISHER
The mother of 16-year-old
Shana Fisher believes that her
daughter was intentionally
targeted by Pagourtzis.
Sadie Rodriguez said
Pagourtzis repeatedly made
advances toward Fisher in the
four months leading up to the
shooting.
CHRIS STONE
Stone was among a group
of students who blocked the
door to try to prevent the gun-
man from entering their art
classroom, freshman Abel
San Miguel said. The shooter
fired his shotgun through the
door, though, striking Stone in
the chest.
SABIKA SHEIKH
Abdul Aziz Sheikh was
expecting his daughter Sabika
to return home to Pakistan in a
few weeks for Eid al-Fitr, the
three-day holiday marking the
end of the Muslim holy month
of Ramadan.
Instead, he learned that his
oldest child was among those
killed in the mass shooting at
Santa Fe High School, where
Sabika arrived as an exchange
student last August.
Surrounded by mourning
friends and family at his home
in Karachi on Saturday, Abdul
Aziz Sheikh fought back tears
as he relived his frantic efforts
to check whether his daughter
was safe half a world away.
He eventually learned from
the exchange program that
she was among the dead.
“We are still in a state of
denial. We can’t believe it.
It’s like a nightmare,” said
Sheikh.
CYNTHIA TISDALE
Leia Olinde said Tisdale,
her aunt and a teacher at the
school, was like a mother to
her and helped her shop for
wedding dresses last year.
“She was wonderful. She
was just so loving,” said
Olinde, 25. “I’ve never met a
woman who loved her family
so much.”
She said Tisdale was mar-
ried to her husband for close
to 40 years and that they had
eight grandchildren.
AARON KYLE MCLEOD
McLeod, a freshman who
went by Kyle “just always
had a bright side of things.”
said close friend Kali Reeves.
Reeves, also 15, said she
knew McLeod for years and
became close friends with
him in the eighth grade.
“He was never one to be
a sad or down person, he
always had to joke or laugh
about things,” she said.
TAX BREAK: ‘We reject this special session and everything it stands for’
Continued from 1A
Many House Republi-
cans criticized the gover-
nor’s decision to sign Senate
Bill 1528 into law and to call
a special session on an issue
that isn’t an emergency.
“I think we can all agree
that this is an emergency
manufactured by the gover-
nor,” said State Rep. Knute
Buehler, R-Bend, who is
challenging Brown in the
governor’s race this year.
State Rep. Phil Barn-
hart, D-Eugene, said the bill
makes an important fix.
“This bill only deals
with an omission from the
2013 law that will make it
fairer for the businesses that
choose to organize as sole
(proprietors),” Barnhart said.
About 100 demonstra-
tors affiliated with the Dem-
ocrat Socialists of America
and the Poor People’s Cam-
paign converged on the Ore-
gon Capitol steps just after
noon Monday to protest the
expansion of the business tax
break.
“We reject this special ses-
sion and everything it stands
for — a choice to increase the
wealth and the comfort of the
few at the top at the expense
of those struggling at the
bottom,” said Olivia Kat-
bi-Smith, co-chairwoman of
the Portland chapter of Dem-
ocratic Socialists of Amer-
ica. “It’s not time to give tax
breaks to the rich; it’s time to
tax the rich and invest in our
communities and fully fund
our state.”
A special session should
address adequate funding for
education, jobs, a living wage,
housing, help for immigrant
and refugee communities and
ending systemic racism, Kat-
bi-Smith said.
In 2013, lawmakers
approved a lower tax rate for
some “pass-through” busi-
nesses, including S-corpora-
tions, limited liability corpo-
rations and partnerships with
certain amount of employ-
ment hours and income of up
to $5 million per year. At that
time, sole proprietors were
excluded. The governor’s bill
changed that.
State Sen. Mark Hass,
D-Beaverton, a member of
the Joint Committee on Sole
Proprietorships,
expressed
reservations about the move
to expand the current pol-
icy. He voted “no” on the bill
because, he said, the effects
of the existing policy are not
yet known and still need to be
analyzed, after more time has
passed and there is more data
to gauge its effectiveness.
“I think that’s been our
problem in the last couple of
years, and we’ve attempted
to fiddle with this, is nobody
can say for sure whether it’s
freeing up capital or creating
jobs or anything else,” Hass
said, “And so until we have a
definitive study or analysis on
this it’s hard for me to support
expanding it.”
Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Cor-
vallis, also voted against the
bill.
State
Rep.
David
Gomberg, D-Central Coast,
and other lawmakers had
proposed several changes to
make the tax break revenue
neutral and to focus on help-
ing small businesses, but none
of those amendments were
voted on before the legisla-
tion was moved to the floor
for a vote.
Gomberg had proposed
amending to the bill to reduce
the income cap to be eligible
for the tax break from $5 mil-
lion to $750,000. Reducing the
eligibility cap by that amount
would make the expansion of
the tax break largely revenue
neutral, meaning it wouldn’t
have cost anything, said Chris
Allanach, acting legislative
revenue officer.
Gomberg’s amendment
also would have reduced the
requirement that businesses
have at least one employee
working 1,200 hours a year
to 1,000 hours per year.
It would have eliminated
the mandatory 30-hour min-
imum work week to qualify
for the break. The 30-hour
requirement excludes sea-
sonal businesses, Gomberg
said.
By opening the tax break
to seasonal businesses and
reducing the income cap, the
expansion of the tax break
would have targeted “mom
and pop” businesses with
lower profit margins, without
cutting into state revenues, he
said.
In discussions with the
Governor’s Office about his
proposal, “there was no real
resistance to it, but we’re in a
time bind,” Gomberg said.
The session corresponded
with the beginning of the Leg-
islature’s quarterly committee
meetings in Salem, which are
scheduled through Wednes-
day, May 23.
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