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REGION Wednesday, January 2, 2019 East Oregonian A3 Parents arrested after 2-year-old fatally shoots himself Snow-covered cabin BAKER CITY (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in Baker City arrested the parents of 2-year-old boy who fatally shot him- self with a handgun in the family’s home. The Oregonian/Ore- gonLive reports that Peter Mankins and Diana Good- man were booked Satur- day in the Baker County Jail, the sheriff’s inmate roster shows. Records show they face charges of second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and unlawful possession of methamphetamine. Police didn’t imme- diately release details about the circumstances of the shooting in Eastern Oregon. The Baker County Dis- trict Attorney’s Office said both were at home when their child, Liam Paul Lee Mankins, picked up an unsecured handgun, pulled the trigger and shot himself in the head on November 4th. The boy was airlifted to a hospital in Boise, Idaho, but died hours later from his injuries. BRIEFLY Pedestrian struck and killed on Interstate 84 Photo contributed by Mike Morehead Snow covers the hillside and an old house in the Blue Mountains south of Pilot Rock. Luring defendant has release hearing By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian The Indiana man Board- man police arrested in a sexual luring sting has a jail release hearing. The Morrow County Cir- cuit Court arraigned Kai Larkins, 20, last Thurs- day on the single count of first-degree online sexual corruption of a child. Lar- kins pleaded not guilty, according to court records. Circuit Judge Daniel Hill also set bail for Larkins at $50,000, and his pub- lic defense attorney, Dan Stephens of Blue Moun- tain Defenders, Hermis- ton, requested the release hearing. The court set that for 8:15 in the morning Thursday. Boardman police investi- gated Larkins after a mother reported her young teen- keeping the young age daughter’s text man in the Uma- messages. Police Lt. tilla County Jail for Loren Dieter said a local mental health he and Sgt. Mark evaluation. Pratt set up a sting District Attorney to catch Larkins on Justin Nelson said Dec. 19 at the Port- Larkins land International Kai Larkins’ mental Airport, Portland, health did not come after he flew in to meet the up in the proceeding and his girl. The police arrested Lar- office objected to his imme- kins at the airport and drove diate release. Nelson said him to the Umatilla County the defendant had the abil- Jail, Pendleton, where he ity to use money to buy an airline ticket and fly to Port- remains. Kai Larkins’ grand- land, and even someone in mother, grandfather and their 20s with the mental step-grandmother came capacity of a 13- or 14-year- from Indiana to attend the old, for example, can func- arraignment. John Larkins, tion. He added the jail has the grandfather, said he is not sent any report that Kai concerned with his grand- Larkins needs special atten- son’s mental capacity and tion or is not safe. John Larkins said the state of mind. He said he was prepared to pay the family visited their grand- $5,000 bail bond to have son at the jail and was his grandson return to Indi- relieved the corrections ana but Stephens suggested staff was keeping him sepa- transferred her via air ambulance to Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane. State police reported Flores died early Monday. Sater said Flores’ identi- fication shows she is from Omak, Washington, but she was living in Stanfield. Sater also said the investi- gators are working on the details of the crash to deter- mine if Flores was in the road, for example, or walk- ing on the shoulder. Oregon State Police reported a Hermiston man came forward as the driver rate from other inmates. The in the fatal hit-and-run visit lasted about an hour, he Sunday in Pendleton. said, and the family set up Daniel Robert Edwards, an account so their grand- 29, came to the Ore- gon State Police office in son could call home. Hermiston and stated he John Larkins also said he read about someone strik- is a retired homicide detec- ing a pedestrian on Inter- tive from the Indianapo- state 84 and believed he lis Police Department and Irrigon man dies was that driver. a former special agent with “Edwards is cooperat- in car accident the Federal Aviation Admin- ing with the investigation,” istration. He said he has state police reported. An Irrigon man died on plenty of questions about Alicia Flores, 40, was on Saturday as he was driving his grandson’s case but he foot at about 6:45 a.m. Sun- on a backroad in Stanfield. is not in the habit of sec- day on the westbound side ond-guessing other police. Seth Alan Doughty, 23, Interstate 84 near milepost was driving eastbound on Stephens the day of the 208 in Pendleton, accord- Echo Meadows Road from arraignment filed a waiver ing to state police Sgt. Lisa Highway 207 early Satur- of extradition, which shows Sater, when a car struck her day morning, according to Kai Larkins’ signature. If and kept going. Emergency Oregon State Police Sgt. the court releases Larkins, personnel found the victim Seth Cooney. he would have to return to Cooney said for with life-threatening inju- Morrow County for court ries but no vehicle was at unknown reasons Doughty proceedings. His grandfa- ther said Larkins is likely to the scene. swerved hard to the south stay put because traveling An ambulance took shoulder of the road, his According to a from new Indiana study by Johns University of Medicine back and forth Flores Hopkins to St. Anthony Hos- School vehicle rolled and and he was the National Institute on Aging, pital, men Pendleton, and women which with hearing much ejected loss from are the vehicle. would be a burden. Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia ARE YOU AT RISK? more likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease. People with severe hearing loss, the study reports, were 5 times more likely to develop dementia than those with normal hearing. Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia C�II ,1:UL ol!Cl!P!l!II\ c:=,1.�,1.r1c:=- A:.Jn L.•l1�� ,jr4•J.H" �t• f: µ�::1•:�1il •J:� i111L".��J rib�-- Ut·:!l'JO 2,bscpi! lJJOpcs 2J9JG 1=.wb,0Ae62· 1• (-,\';"-?� ,1 ,.·\��, .�, ARE YOU AT RISK? IS IT TIME FOR A HEARING TEST? TAKE THIS QUIZ TO FIND OUT ... 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