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RANDALL KILBY CASE
Suspect in previous death
now faces murder charges
Oregon
House shuts
down for up
to 2 weeks
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Bend man jailed after 2 bodies found Sunday; Kilby was linked to attack
on woman Christmas Day; all 3 deaths are now suspected homicides
The Oregon House will
shut down for up to two
weeks after reports of a posi-
tive COVID-19 case involving
someone on the House floor
last week.
The Legislature shut down
activity in the Capitol on Mon-
day following a report of a pos-
itive case of COVID-19 tied to
an earlier floor session.
“The House will not return
to floor session until Monday,
March 29, at the earliest,” said
Danny Moran, spokesman for
House Speaker Tina Kotek,
D-Portland. “Committee work,
which is being done remotely,
will continue as planned.”
Kotek confirmed the posi-
tive case during an afternoon
press call. She said it involved
someone who worked on the
House floor during a session
last week. She said she could
not yet say whether it was a
lawmaker or staffer.
Kotek had abruptly ad-
journed Monday’s session
at 1 p.m. without comment.
During the press call she said
she shut down the House after
learning of the COVID-19 case.
“We want to keep members
safe,” Kotek said.
During the press call, Kotek
said she planned to bring the
60 House members back to the
Capitol on Wednesday after a
review of public health proto-
cols.
House Minority Leader
Christin Drazan, R-Canby, is-
sued a statement saying she
recommended lawmakers go
home and quarantine for up to
two weeks.
“Out of an abundance of
caution, my immediate recom-
mendation is for legislators and
staff to minimize the risk of an
outbreak in Oregon’s Capitol
by returning home,” Drazan
said.
Drazan said returning
Wednesday would put the
health of lawmakers and staff
at jeopardy.
“There are several elected
members from the House with
underlying conditions who
have not had the opportunity
to vaccinate yet,” Drazan said.
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A murder investigation continues Monday in Bend at SW Lynx Lane and Granite Drive, where two bodies were discovered on Sunday.
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
T
Randall Kilby, 35, of
Bend, was already
a suspect in an as-
sault case but was
not being held in
jail before Sunday.
he man Bend Police arrested Sunday
in connection with a suspected dou-
ble homicide is the same man alleged
to have killed a woman who died after an
attack Christmas Day. He now faces mur-
der charges in all three deaths.
Randall Richard Kilby, 35, was arrested
Sunday on suspicion of three counts of
murder, Deschutes County District Attor-
ney John Hummel confirmed Monday.
At least one of the victims discovered
Sunday died of hatchet blows.
Hummel said in a news conference
Monday he couldn’t comment on the man-
ner of death in the other case because only
the hatchet death was witnessed by another
party.
According to Hummel, around 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, a woman named Darlene Allen
was walking with Kilby in the Romaine Vil-
lage neighborhood in southwest Bend. As
she passed another person, Allen mouthed
the words “help me” and the other person
called 911, Hummel said. Later in the walk,
she broke free of Kilby and ran to another
neighbor and told them someone had been
murdered in the house where she was living
and that her son was involved.
Police arrived and Allen allowed them
into her home at 60971 Granite Drive. In-
side the manufactured home, officers found
the bodies of Jeffrey Allen Taylor, 66, and
his brother, Benjamin Harlin Taylor, 69.
Allen told police that on Saturday, she’d
been an eyewitness to the death of Jeffrey
Taylor, who died of hatchet blows.
After the alleged murders on Saturday,
Kilby forced his mother, Allen, into his car
and drove around town for several hours,
Hummel said Monday. Kilby ended the car
ride back at her house in Romaine Village,
where he watched over her overnight.
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See House / A13
CENTRAL OREGON | MAY BALLOT
Baker Technical Institute
Lots of interest in board seats
expanding to Prineville for area’s smaller school districts
Only seven years after its founding, a Baker
City-based technical college will start holding
regular classes in Prineville next month.
Baker Technical Institute planting its flag in
Prineville, starting with truck-driving courses
on April 19, will train highly skilled workers
for Central Oregon businesses that desperately
need them, said college President Doug Dalton.
And, he said, Crook County’s blue-collar cul-
ture is a perfect fit for the school, which he re-
ferred to as BTI.
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“The culture of the city of Prineville really fit
well with the BTI culture,” Dalton told The Bul-
letin. “It’s really rooted in the tradition of work,
a job well done, the old-school work ethic.”
Baker Technical Institute was founded in 2014,
and officially licensed by the state as a higher-ed-
ucation institution in February , according to the
school’s website. It isn’t a public university that re-
ceives taxpayer funding, Dalton said.
The school’s specialty is training students for
careers like trucking, construction equipment
operation, welding and more.
See College / A13
INDEX
Business
Classifieds
Comics
A11
A14
A9-10
Dear Abby
Editorial
Horoscope
A7
A8
A7
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Four of Central Oregon’s smaller school
districts will see at least one contested school
board race in the May 18 special election.
The most heated competition is in the Red-
mond School District, with nine candidates —
only one of which is an incumbent — running
for three seats.
The four incumbents for the Central Ore-
gon Community College board of directors are
all running unopposed. And due to a Crook
Kid Scoop
Local/State
Lottery
A12
A2
A6
Obituaries
Puzzles
Sports
A4
A10
A5-7
County School District board member abruptly
resigning last week, the deadline to apply for
that seat was extended to Wednesday .
Redmond School Board
With Redmond School Board members Rick
Bailey and Travis Bennett choosing to not seek
reelection, Central Oregon’s second-largest
school district will see at least two new faces
come July 1. Bailey and Bennett served eight
and five years on the board, respectively.
See Schools / A4
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