The BulleTin • Sunday, March 28, 2021 A5
Kilby
Continued from A1
A home on Granite Drive
The scene of the three fatal
attacks is a simple yellow and
white double-wide ensconced
by juniper bushes. At the time
of the March 20 killings, four
people lived there — Jeffrey
Taylor, Benny Taylor, and Ran-
dall Kilby and
his mother,
Darlene Al-
len.
County
property re-
cords show
the home is
Jeffrey Taylor
owned by
the estate of
Velma Taylor. She moved there
in 1995 and died five years later.
Velma Taylor had a daughter,
Sherrie, and a son, Benny.
Sherrie Taylor was married
for 40 years to Jeffrey Taylor,
who happened to share her last
name. The couple lived at the
Granite Drive house following
Velma’s death in 2000.
For years, Benny Taylor
worked a custodial job at St.
Charles Bend before being laid
off. Sherrie and Jeffrey Taylor’s
daughter, Chantel, a 40-year-
old Redmond resident, knew
her “Uncle B” to live a solitary
life and never married.
Sherrie Taylor never allowed
Kilby in her house, according
to neighbors and her daughter.
“My mom hated Randall,”
Chantel Taylor said. “Nobody
liked him, but my mom hated
him.”
But after Sherrie’s death in
January 2020, Jeffrey Taylor al-
lowed Kilby to move into the
house. In June, Kilby’s mother,
Darlene Allen, came to visit
and took a liking to the area.
The home had an extra room
and soon she moved in.
Allen paid rent and worked
around the property to earn
her keep, Chantel Taylor said,
but Kilby owed Jeffrey Tay-
lor hundreds of dollars in back
rent and other loans.
Chantel Taylor said this year
her father finally started to lay
down the law with Kilby. Kilby
didn’t take it well.
“Randall threatened him on
multiple occasions that if he’d
ever tried to kick him out or call
the cops on him, he would kill
him and slit his throat,” she said.
Though quiet by nature,
Benny too had grown more
vocal about Kilby, who argued
often with his mother, often
about Kilby’s drug use.
“He didn’t like loud noises,”
Chantel Taylor said. “He would
yell at them to quiet down and
get out.”
Chantel Taylor said she’s
been in contact with Allen
about her leaving the prop-
erty, but Kilby’s mother was
still there Wednesday after-
noon. Darlene Allen was mov-
ing around items outside the
Granite Drive house. She could
be heard talking to herself
from several houses away.
“I’d rather you just leave
right now,” Allen said when
asked to comment. “It’s about
drugs, and my son was get-
ting clean, so he lost — I don’t
want to talk! Get the f--k off
the property, please. I’ve had
enough today.”
Recent trouble with the law
Kilby grew increasingly agi-
tated in recent years.
In August 2019, Kilby was
arrested after allegedly driving
into three vehicles at two lo-
cations in Deschutes County.
Police used spike strips to stop
his vehicle to end a lengthy
pursuit. He was charged with
15 criminal counts and he’s
pleaded not guilty.
About a year ago, in early
2020, neighbor Shanon Thom-
asson noticed one of the cars
outside the Granite Drive
house had a newly smashed
windshield following one of
Kilby’s “tantrums,” he said.
Thomasson asked Kilby
about it the next time he saw
him.
“He goes, ‘Well, it’s better I
took it out on a car than some-
body,’” Thomasson said.
On Sept. 28, 2020, Red-
mond accountant Farid Ha-
jizada drove to visit a friend
who lives next door to the
Granite Drive house. After
parking, Hajizada’s vehicle was
struck by one driven by Kilby,
according to Deschutes County
Circuit Court records.
“The look on his face, it was
terrifying,” Hajizada told The
Bulletin. “I was truly scared.
I’ve never felt anything like that
before in my life.”
Hajizada remembers Jeffrey
Taylor at the scene offering
an apology, though he hadn’t
been involved.
Kilby was arrested and
charged with reckless endan-
gering, criminal mischief, driv-
ing on a suspended license
and two counts of assault. He’s
pleaded not guilty and that
case is pending.
On Dec. 25, 2020, police say
Kilby attacked Daphne Banks
in the home on Granite Drive.
Kilby, the only other witness,
claimed Banks hurt herself fall-
ing, but po-
lice and doc-
tors say her
injuries didn’t
support that
explanation.
Neighbor
Dorothy Ev-
Daphne Banks, ans remem-
pictured with
bers seeing
her grand-
the ambu-
child.
lance outside
the Taylor
house and wondering if Jeffrey
Taylor was OK.
Kilby was arrested that day
on suspicion of assault, but re-
leased from jail without being
charged. He wasn’t charged in
that case until Monday.
About a week before Jeffrey
Taylor was killed, Chantel Tay-
lor drove him to the hospital
for surgery to remove kidney
stones. He told his daughter he
was worried about Kilby, she
said.
He said that sometime after
Christmas, Kilby had stolen
his .22 rifle and a box of bullets
from his room. Darlene Allen
had reportedly called police to
say her son had a gun and re-
quested a welfare check.
“My dad was scared,” Chan-
tel Taylor said.
After dropping her father off
at the hospital, Chantel Taylor
called police to ask if it was safe
to take him back to his house.
“I didn’t want to bring my
dad home when Randall has a
gun,” she said.
Chantel Taylor said police
told her they didn’t have enough
evidence to believe Kilby was a
danger to himself or others, so
they couldn’t do anything.
Neither Bend Police nor
Deschutes County District At-
torney John Hummel, would
comment on Chantel Taylor’s
claims.
‘Help me, help me, help me’
Around 12:30 p.m. Sunday,
Shanon Thomasson’s son, Bro-
gan, was taking a break from
working on his truck. He saw
his neighbor from across the
street, Darlene Allen, head to-
ward him, her son trailing be-
hind. Something in her face
seemed off, Thomasson said.
“She’s not saying a word, but
mouthing, ‘Help me, help me,
help me,’” said Brogan Thom-
asson, 18.
He asked if everything was
all right. Kilby told him to not
worry about it.
“I felt bad about the whole
situation,” Brogan Thomasson
said. “It was one of those gut
feelings.”
When the two rounded the
corner, Thomasson called the
police nonemergency number
and officers were dispatched.
When contacted, Allen told
police her son did “something
bad” to the other two men in
her home.
Kilby was arrested at a
nearby intersection. Police say
that once in custody, Kilby
gave them enough information
to arrest him for allegedly kill-
ing Banks.
Brogan Thomasson hasn’t
slept well since the incident.
He’s thought often of police of-
ficers leaving the home and the
look on their faces.
“When they came out, they
all had the most disgusted
looks on their faces that I’d ever
seen,” he said. “All of ’em. That’s
when I knew something really
bad had happened.”
Neighbor Susan Stanyer
worries about the impact the
killings will have on her young
grandchildren who live nearby.
They were having a birthday
party that night.
“It’s sickening,” she said.
“Look how close we are, 100
feet. We were probably in here
watching TV, and two people
were fighting for their lives
over there.”
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