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LOCAL BRIEFING
County restaurants
can apply for
pandemic relief
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
A police car Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, blocks access to Southeast First Street in front of the Mari-
gold Hotel in downtown Pendleton following a shooting at the hotel.
Local off ender suspect
in shooting injuring teen
By BRYCE DOLE
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — The
man police identifi ed as the
shooter who injured a teen
Tuesday, Nov. 9, in down-
town Pendleton, has convic-
tions for child pornography.
Pendleton police arrested
Steven Moses Enko, 40, of
Pendleton, after the gunfi re
that sent a 17-year-old boy
with a bullet wound to a fore-
arm to the hospital. Pendle-
ton police reported the injury
was not life threatening.
Pendleton Police chief
Chuck Byram said offi cers
responded to the Marigold
Hotel, 105 S.E. Court Ave.,
at around 12:40 p.m. Nov. 9,
after receiving multiple 911
calls of shots fi red. Accord-
ing to Byram, there was a
“verbal altercation” and then
a person at the hotel shot at a
red Volkswagen Jetta on the
100 block of Southeast First
Street as the occupants drove
away.
The driver lost control and
crashed into a utility post at
the corner of South Main
Street and Court Avenue. The
occupants fl ed to a house a
few hundred feet away, police
said.
Police later found the
occupants, including the
teen who had been shot in the
forearm. Medics transported
him to CHI St. Anthony
Hospital, Pendleton. Byram
said police did not know the
victim’s medical status.
After officers arrived
to investigate the shooting
and crash, witnesses told
them the shooter still was in
the hotel. Police found the
suspect, Enko, hiding in the
basement and arrested him
without incident.
Byram said police found
evidence at the scene “link-
ing (Enko) to the shooting.”
Enko is in the Umatilla
County Jail. State court
records show the Umatilla
County District Attorney’s
Offi ce on Nov. 10 has brought
initial charges against
Enko of attempted murder,
second-degree assault,
unlawful use of a weapon
(two counts), felon in posses-
sion of a fi rearm and tamper-
ing with physical evidence.
Enko in 2019 faced 13
counts for the possession
of child pornography. State
court records show he took
a plea deal, admitting guilt
to two counts of fi rst-degree
encouraging child sexual
abuse. He received a prison
sentence of 27 months with
credit for time in jail plus
post-prison supervision for
three years.
UMATILLA COUNTY
— Restaurants in Umatilla
Count y enduring the
economic eff ects of the coro-
navirus pandemic can apply
for some local fi nancial help.
Gail Nelson, Umatilla
County economic develop-
ment and tourism coordinator,
announced in a press release
her department has estab-
lished the COVID-19 Restau-
rant Relief Grant to provide
one-time, short-term fi nan-
cial support to restaurants
impacted by the pandemic.
These funds are CARES
Act funds passed down from
the federal government to
the state of Oregon and now
to Umatilla County to help
restaurants.
“The purpose of these
grants is to provide some
additional relief to restau-
rants that were forced to cease
indoor operations and provide
take-out or outdoor seating
only during the ‘Extreme’
category ranking period,”
Umatilla County Commis-
sioner John Shafer stated in
the press release.
Oregon has passed along
$100,000 to Umatilla County
to disperse to restaurants in
grants of $5,000. Applica-
tions are available now, and
the window to apply closes
Nov. 29 at 9 a.m.
“Grant recipients will
be selected through lottery
drawing,” according to
the press release. “Checks
processed and distributed
before the end of the calen-
dar year.”
To qualify for the grant, a
restaurant must have its head-
quarters in Umatilla County
and operating withing the
county; employ 25 or fewer
full time equivalent employ-
ees; and must have been in
business and operating prior
to March 1, 2020.
The county will accept
only one application per
business entity, and nonprofi t
organizations are not eligible.
To apply, go to www.
umatillacounty.net/grants
and click on the Restau-
rant Relief Grant button on
the website’s home page.
Complete and submit the
application online. If you do
not have computer access,
you can pick up a paper
application at each commu-
nity’s city hall and return the
completed application to that
city hall by the Nov. 29 dead-
line.
The drawing for the grants
will be on Nov. 30.
The county will notify
successful grant applicants
via email and ask them to
submit a completed W9 form
before mailing grant award
checks.
Email questions about the
program to grants@umatilla-
county.net.
Ukiah death
under investigation
UKIAH — The Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Office is
investigating the death of a
man in Ukiah.
The sheriff’s office in a
press release Wednesday,
Nov. 10, reported the Umatilla
County dispatch center on
Nov. 7 at approximately
11:45 p.m. received a 911 call
requesting an ambulance to
the Antlers Hotel in Ukiah for
an unresponsive male.
“ C PR w a s b e i n g
performed at the time of the
call,” according to the press
release.
Medics with the Pendle-
ton Fire Department arrived,
and the male, which the sher-
iff ’s offi ce identifi ed as Lewis
Milton Brightman, 59, of
Klamath Falls, died at the
scene.
Sheriff’s deputies also
arrived and requested a detec-
tive respond, the press release
stated, and the sheriff ’s offi ce
requested the Oregon State
Medical Examiner in Clack-
amas conduct an autopsy to
help determine the cause of
death.
The autopsy was sched-
uled for Nov. 9, and the results
are pending.
The sheriff’s office also
reported the investigation is
ongoing with “further infor-
mation to be released when
appropriate.”
— EO Media Group
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