A4 The BulleTin • Thursday, april 8, 2021
TODAY
Today is Thursday, April 8, the
98th day of 2021. There are 267
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 8, 1864, the United
States Senate passed, 38-6, the
13th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution abolishing slavery.
(The House of Representatives
passed it in January 1865; the
amendment was ratified and
adopted in December 1865.)
In 1513, explorer Juan Ponce de
Leon and his expedition began
exploring the Florida coastline.
In 1820, the Venus de Milo stat-
ue was discovered by a farmer
on the Greek island of Milos.
In 1911, an explosion at the
Banner Coal Mine in Littleton,
Alabama, claimed the lives of
128 men, most of them convicts
loaned out from prisons.
In 1913, the 17th Amendment to
the Constitution, providing for
popular election of U.S. senators
(as opposed to appointment by
state legislatures), was ratified.
President Woodrow Wilson
became the first chief executive
since John Adams to address
Congress in person as he asked
lawmakers to enact tariff reform.
In 1952, President Harry S. Tru-
man seized the American steel
industry to avert a nationwide
strike. (The Supreme Court later
ruled that Truman had over-
stepped his authority, opening
the way for a seven-week strike
by steelworkers.)
In 1963, “Lawrence of Arabia”
won the Oscar for best picture at
the Academy Awards; Gregory
Peck won best actor for “To Kill
a Mockingbird” while Anne
Bancroft received best actress
honors for “The Miracle Worker.”
In 1974, Hank Aaron of the At-
lanta Braves hit his 715th career
home run in a game against the
Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking
Babe Ruth’s record.
In 1990, Ryan White, the teen-
age AIDS patient whose battle
for acceptance had gained
national attention, died in India-
napolis at age 18.
In 1993, singer Marian Anderson
died in Portland at age 96.
In 1994, Kurt Cobain, singer
and guitarist for the grunge
band Nirvana, was found dead
in Seattle from an apparently
self-inflicted gunshot wound;
he was 27.
In 2009, Somali pirates hijacked
the U.S.-flagged Maersk Ala-
bama; although the crew was
able to retake the cargo ship,
the captain, Richard Phillips, was
taken captive by the raiders and
held aboard a lifeboat. (Phillips
was rescued four days later by
Navy SEAL snipers who shot
three of the pirates dead.)
Ten years ago: Congressional
and White House negotiators
struck a last-minute budget deal
ahead of a midnight deadline,
averting an embarrassing feder-
al shutdown and cutting billions
in spending.
Five years ago: In a sweeping
document on family life that
opened a door to divorced and
civilly remarried Catholics, Pope
Francis insisted that church
doctrine could not be the final
word in answering tricky moral
questions and that Catholics
had to be guided by their own
informed consciences. Bruce
Springsteen canceled a sched-
uled concert in Greensboro,
North Carolina, citing the state’s
new law blocking anti-discrim-
ination rules covering the LGBT
community.
One year ago: A 76-day lock-
down was lifted in the Chinese
city of Wuhan, where the global
pandemic began; residents
would have to use a smart-
phone app showing that they
had not been in recent contact
with anyone confirmed to have
the virus. Sen. Bernie Sanders,
I-Vt., ended his presidential
bid, making Joe Biden the pre-
sumptive Democratic nominee
to challenge President Donald
Trump.
Today’s Birthdays: Comedian
Shecky Greene is 95. Author
and Pulitzer Prize-winning
reporter Seymour Hersh is
84. “Mouseketeer” Darlene
Gillespie is 80. Singer Peggy
Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is
80. Songwriter-producer Leon
Huff is 79. Actor Stuart Pankin is
75. Rock musician Steve Howe
is 74. Former House Republican
leader Tom DeLay is 74. Movie
director John Madden is 72.
Rock musician Mel Schacher
(Grand Funk Railroad) is 70. Sen.
Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is 66. Actor
John Schneider is 61. “Survivor”
winner Richard Hatch is 60.
Singer Julian Lennon is 58. Actor
Dean Norris is 58. Rapper Biz
Markie is 57. Actor Robin Wright
is 55. Actor Patricia Arquette is
53. Actor Katee Sackhoff is 41.
Rock singer-musician Ezra Koe-
nig (Vampire Weekend) is 37.
— Associated Press
Oregon Senate GOP leader faces Biden
prepares
recall effort for not walking out
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon Senate Minority
Leader Fred Girod faces a recall effort be-
cause he was among GOP lawmakers who
allowed the chamber to reach a quorum
last month while it debated whether to ban
firearms in state buildings.
Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that
Girod and five fellow Republicans were
on hand March 25, ensuring the chamber
had the minimum 20 members present
required to take up business. Republicans
in the state Senate have previously skipped
floor sessions en masse to thwart legisla-
tion favored by majority Democrats.
The gun bill passed over GOP objections.
On Monday, a Molalla resident named
LaVaedra Newton filed a prospective pe-
tition to bounce Girod from the
Senate seat he’s held since 2008.
Newton and others say Girod ab-
dicated his duty by not blocking
the gun bill.
To successfully force a recall elec-
tion, Newton will need to collect
at least 8,922 valid signatures from
Girod
voters in Girod’s district by July 6.
In recent years, recall petitions
against two state legislators — former
Democratic state Rep. Tiffiny Mitchell of
Astoria and Republican state Sen. Chuck
Thomsen of Hood River — have come up
short. So have five petitions to recall Gov.
Kate Brown.
Girod on Tuesday said he was
not worried about bucking the
trend.
“I just stood for election — in a
three way race I got 67%,” he said.
“If they want to spend a bunch
of money trying to take me out,
they’re welcome to do it. I don’t
think they’ll be successful.”
Rather than focus on the recall,
Girod said he would work on getting relief
to his fire-ravaged district, passing a new
two-year budget and steering billions of
dollars in new federal aid.
Fire: Home burned overnight; owners told chimney was being cleaned
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Kilby is now charged with
first-degree murder in the
deaths of Jeff Taylor, 66, and
Benny Taylor, 69, whose bodies
were found March 21, and also
second-degree murder in the
death of Bend woman Daphne
Banks, 43, who died Jan. 10.
Kilby, 35, has a plea hearing
scheduled later this month.
Chantel Taylor is Jeff Taylor’s
daughter. She said her family
had been allowing Allen access
to the property since the killings
last month.
Allen would
reportedly
go in and out
of the home
during the
day and sleep
in her car on
Kilby
the street out-
side at night.
A police sergeant told Chan-
tel Taylor that Allen said that
on Tuesday night, she’d de-
cided to clean the home’s chim-
ney flue, lit a fire and then went
to sleep in her car.
In its statement Wednesday
afternoon, Bend Fire & Res-
cue announced the woman
who reported the fire had been
sleeping in her car and was as-
sisted that night by Red Cross.
Authorities did not identify the
woman by name.
Tuesday night, as Shanon
Thomasson watched the fire
from his house across the
street, he worried Allen might
be inside.
“That was no place for
someone to live,” he said
Wednesday afternoon. “It’s
almost like God’s own hand
burnt that to the ground.”
The home has been a nexus
for tragedy since Christmas
morning, when Banks, a friend
of Kilby’s who had been living
in the Granite Drive home’s
detached garage, was taken to
St. Charles Bend with a severe
head injury.
Kilby told police several
versions of a story involving
Banks falling off a stool and
hitting her head. In one ac-
count, her head struck the flat
end of a nail.
Police and doctors didn’t
buy Kilby’s explanation and ar-
rested him that day for assault.
Days later, as Banks clung to
life in a hospital bed, Kilby
bailed out of jail.
He was out of custody when
Banks died in January, and
again March 21, when officers
made a gruesome discovery in-
side the Granite Drive home.
Jeff Taylor, who once ran a
catering business in Bend and
was on disability, was found
dead alongside his roommate
and brother-in-law, Benny Tay-
lor. A hatchet was used in at
least one of their deaths, De-
schutes County District Attor-
ney John Hummel has said.
Hummel said that after the kill-
ings of Taylor and Taylor, Kilby
kept his mother as a hostage
overnight. The next day, on a
walk with her son, she was able
to get a neighbor to call police.
Garrett Andrews/The Bulletin
Laci Killian stands before the charred home on Granite Drive in Bend where her mother, Daphne Banks, suf-
fered a fatal injury Christmas Day. Later, in March, the bodies of two of the home’s occupants were found
inside. Bend man Randall Richard Kilby has been charged with murder in all three cases. Tuesday night, the
home mysteriously burned.
“That was no place for
someone to live. It’s almost
like God’s own hand burnt
that to the ground.”
— Shanon Thomasson, neighbor
in the charred home hollowed
by fire on Wednesday. “Even
with him now in jail, there’s no
justice for my mom. Because it
took two more lives to be taken.”
Killian and her mother would
talk just about every day. On
Christmas, after her sister called
her to say their mother was in
the ICU, Killian drove imme-
diately to the Granite Drive
house, where she confronted
Kilby. His explanation devolved
into a screaming match with his
mother, Killian said.
All of it has taken a toll on
her, she said.
“It’s all a nightmare,” Killian
said. “This — all of this — is a
nightmare.”
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Reporter: 541-383-0325,
gandrews@bendbulletin.com
actions
on guns
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Joe Biden will unveil
a series of executive actions
aimed at addressing gun vio-
lence on Thursday, delivering
his first major action on gun
control since taking office.
He will also nominate
David Chipman, a former
federal agent and adviser at
the gun control group Gif-
fords, to be director of the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives,
according to senior Biden
administration officials.
Biden has faced increas-
ing pressure to act on gun
control after a spate of mass
shootings across the U.S.
in recent weeks, but the
White House has repeatedly
emphasized the need for
legislative action on guns.
While the House passed a
background-check bill last
month, gun control mea-
sures face slim prospects in
an evenly-divided Senate.
Biden is expected to an-
nounce tighter regulations
requiring buyers of so-
called “ghost guns” to un-
dergo background checks.
The homemade firearms —
often assembled from parts
and milled with a met-
al-cutting machine — often
lack serial numbers used to
trace them. It’s legal to build
a gun in a home or a work-
shop and there is no federal
requirement for a back-
ground check.
Senior administration
officials confirmed that the
Justice Department would
issue a new proposed rule
aimed at reining in ghost
guns within 30 days, but of-
fered no details on the con-
tent of the rule.
The Justice Department
will also issue a proposed
rule within 60 days tighten-
ing regulations on pistol-sta-
bilizing braces, like the one
used by the Boulder, Colo-
rado, shooter in a massacre
last month that left 10 dead.
The rule would designate
pistols used with stabilizing
braces as short-barreled ri-
fles, which, under the Na-
tional Firearms Act, require
a federal license to own and
are subject to a more thor-
ough application process
and a $200 tax.
The Justice Department
will also publish model red-
flag legislation within 60
days, which the administra-
tion says will make it easier
for states to adopt their own
red-flag laws. Such laws allow
for individuals to petition a
court to allow the police to
confiscate weapons from a
person deemed to be a dan-
ger to themselves or others.
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
Fire investigators were on site Wednesday.
Police found Kilby wander-
ing the streets nearby and ar-
rested him.
Chantel Taylor said she
heard through her court-ap-
pointed victim advocate that
someone called police Tuesday
night and threatened to burn
down the house. Chantel Tay-
lor said she was not told the
person’s gender.
Bend Police spokeswoman
Lt. Juli McConkey said the
department does not have a
record of such a call from the
Granite Drive neighborhood.
Chantel Taylor said Allen no
longer has permission to be on
the property.
Wednesday afternoon, after
investigators had left the scene,
Banks’ daughter Laci Killian
was there talking to neighbors.
She said she wanted answers.
Killian thinks police didn’t
take her mom’s case seriously at
first because of Banks’ history of
homelessness. And she guesses
they would have closed the case
if Kilby hadn’t allegedly con-
fessed — while in custody for
the Taylor killings — to striking
her mother in the head with a
hammer on Christmas Day.
Killian noted Kilby’s van still
parked in front of the house
Wednesday afternoon. She was
told the day after Christmas,
Kilby drove it to the dump, pos-
sibly to dispose of evidence. She
noted the garage, where she said
there remains bloody evidence
of the attack on her mother.
“I feel sick,” she said standing
Leroy E. Hall
of Redmond, OR
James Patrick McCor-
mick of Bend, OR
June 11, 1930 -
November 20, 2020
Arrangements:
Arrangements Entrusted
To: Redmond Memorial
Chapel
www.redmondmemorial.
com ; 541.548.3219
Services:
Graveside Services are
Scheduled for 12:00 pm,
Sat., April 24, 2021 at
Redmond Memorial Cem-
etery. A Memorial Service
will follow at the Redmond
VFW Hall at 1:00pm
Contributions may be
made to:
Local Charity of Your
Choice
Nov 9, 1935 - March 31,
2021
Arrangements:
Baird Memorial Chapel
of La Pine is honored
to serve the McCormick
family. Please visit our
website, www.bairdfh.com,
to share condolences and
sign the online guestbook.
Services:
A mass will be held at the
Holy Redeemer Catholic
Parish in La Pine, Oregon
at 10:00 am on Friday April
9, 2021. Interment will be
at Pilot Butte Cemetery in
Bend, Oregon.
Contributions may be
made to:
Sunriver Music Festival
PO Box 4308
Sunriver, OR 97707
P: 541-593-9310
Website: sunrivermusic.org
Amy C. Cronen
of Redmond, OR
Irrigation
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Irrigation season is starting this month, and
Tumalo was expected to begin April 19. The
district is working with its contractors and en-
gineers to repair the damaged pipeline so water
can be delivered to farmers later this month.
The estimated cost to repair the damage is
$125,000 to $250,000, according to the district.
Anyone with information that leads to an arrest
will be offered $2,500 and will receive the addi-
tional $7,500 after a conviction, the district said.
Following the repairs, the irrigation district
will determine if the pipeline is sufficient or if it
needs to be completely replaced.
The district provides water to 684 customers
who irrigate 7,350 acres of land to grow a variety
of crops and dairy products.
Anyone with information about the
vandalism is asked to contact the sheriff’s office
at 541-693-6911 and reference case number
21-15441.
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Reporter: 541-617-7820, kspurr@bendbulletin.com
March 22, 1971 -
March 28, 2021
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To: Redmond Memorial
Chapel
www.redmondmemorial.
com ; 541.548.3219
Services:
Private Family Services
Contributions may be
made to:
A Local Charity of Your
Choice
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