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Wednesday, January 2, 2019
East Oregonian
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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
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much
ejected loss
from are
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