A4 The BulleTin • Tuesday, april 13, 2021
TODAY
SOUTHWEST OREGON
Today is Tuesday, April 13, the
103rd day of 2021. There are 262
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13,
four-fifths of the way to the
moon, was crippled when a tank
containing liquid oxygen burst.
(The astronauts managed to
return safely.)
In 1613, Pocahontas, daughter
of Chief Powhatan, was cap-
tured by English Capt. Samuel
Argall in the Virginia Colony.
(During a yearlong captivity,
Pocahontas converted to Chris-
tianity and ultimately opted to
stay with the English.)
In 1742, “Messiah,” the oratorio
by George Frideric Handel fea-
turing the “Hallelujah” chorus,
had its first public performance
in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1743, the third president of
the United States, Thomas Jef-
ferson, was born in Shadwell in
the Virginia Colony.
In 1861, at the start of the Civil
War, Fort Sumter in South Caroli-
na fell to Confederate forces.
In 1870, the Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art was incorporated in
New York. (The original museum
opened in 1872.)
In 1943, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt dedicated the Jeffer-
son Memorial in Washington,
D.C., on the 200th anniversary of
the third American president’s
birth.
In 1964, Sidney Poitier became
the first Black performer in a
leading role to win an Academy
Award for his performance in
“Lilies of the Field.”
In 1992, the Great Chicago
Flood took place as the city’s
century-old tunnel system and
adjacent basements filled with
water from the Chicago River.
“The Bridges of Madison Coun-
ty,” a romance novel by Robert
James Waller, was published by
Warner Books.
In 1997, Tiger Woods became
the youngest person to win the
Masters Tournament and the
first player of partly African heri-
tage to claim a major golf title.
In 1999, right-to-die advocate
Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sen-
tenced in Pontiac, Michigan,
to 10 to 25 years in prison for
second-degree murder in the
lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s
disease patient. (Kevorkian end-
ed up serving eight years.)
In 2005, a defiant Eric Rudolph
pleaded guilty to carrying out
the deadly bombing at the 1996
Atlanta Olympics and three oth-
er attacks in back-to-back court
appearances in Birmingham,
Alabama, and Atlanta.
In 2015, a federal judge in Wash-
ington sentenced former Black-
water security guard Nicholas
Slatten to life in prison and three
others to 30-year terms for their
roles in a 2007 shooting in Bagh-
dad’s Nisoor Square that killed
14 Iraqi civilians and wounded
17 others.
Ten years ago: A federal jury in
San Francisco convicted baseball
slugger Barry Bonds of a single
charge of obstruction of justice,
but failed to reach a verdict on
the three counts at the heart
of allegations that he’d know-
ingly used steroids and human
growth hormone and lied to
a grand jury about it. (Bonds’
conviction for obstruction was
ultimately overturned.)
Five years ago: A task force is-
sued a report saying that Chica-
go police had “no regard for the
sanctity of life when it comes to
people of color.” A judge in Fort
Worth, Texas ordered 19-year-
old Ethan Couch, who had used
an “affluenza” defense in a fatal
drunken-driving wreck, to serve
nearly two years in prison. Kobe
Bryant of the Lakers scored 60
points in his final game, wrap-
ping up 20 years in the NBA.
One year ago: President Don-
ald Trump claimed “total” au-
thority to decide how and when
to reopen the economy after
weeks of tough social distancing
guidelines. Sculptor and painter
Glenna Goodacre, who created
the Vietnam Women’s Memorial
in Washington, D.C., died in New
Mexico at the age of 80.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Edward Fox is 84. Actor Paul
Sorvino is 82. R&B singer Les-
ter Chambers is 81. Movie-TV
composer Bill Conti is 79. Rock
musician Jack Casady is 77.
Actor Tony Dow is 76. Singer Al
Green is 75. Actor Ron Perlman
is 71. Actor William Sadler is
71. Bandleader/rock musician
Max Weinberg is 70. Bluegrass
singer-musician Sam Bush is
69. Chess grandmaster Garry
Kasparov is 58. Rock singer
Aaron Lewis (Staind) is 49. Actor
Bokeem Woodbine is 48. Singer
Lou Bega is 46. Rapper/singer
Ty Dolla $ign is 39. Actor Allison
Williams is 33. Actor Hannah
Marks is 28.
FEMA trailers being used for fire survivors, not migrants
— Associated Press
Associated Press
MEDFORD — Federal officials
say that trailers at an industrial site
in southwest Oregon, which were ru-
mored to house unaccompanied immi-
grant children, are actually for survivors
of the September wildfires.
The Mail Tribune reported on Sun-
day that the rumors spurred people
with guns to show up at the site to pro-
test the presence of the trailers. Officials
say the group did not brandish their
weapons in a threatening manner and
no one was hurt.
“Those rumors are false. We are not
utilizing the manufactured home units
or any of the travel trailers to house un-
accompanied immigrants or individu-
als who are crossing the border in the
south, the north or any other border,”
said Toney Raines, the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency’s coordi-
nating officer for the state of Oregon.
During the September 2020 wild-
fires in Oregon, more than 1,562 square
miles and at least 4,000 homes were de-
stroyed. Jackson County, which was the
hardest hit area, lost 2,500 homes and,
as of last week, 785 fire survivors were
still living in hotels.
The flames that ravaged Oregon and
wiped out affordable housing and entire
neighborhoods only exacerbated the
state’s housing crisis.
“We have almost no vacancy any-
where. We’re at essentially 0% vacancy,”
John Vial, the Jackson County Emer-
gency Operations Center director, told
the Mail Tribune. “These FEMA trail-
ers are absolutely essential. We don’t
have other options for housing. Without
bringing in and placing trailers, people
will have nowhere to go. These trailers are
absolutely critical for our community.”
The trailers and units have been
hauled to several communities im-
pacted by the fires, including 96 in Jack-
son County.
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Christian Monterrosa/AP
Minnesota is reeling after police fatally shot another
Black man. Here a person confronts an officer near the
site of the latest shooting, in Brooklyn Center, on Sunday.
Charges
Continued from A1
The oldest of the 16 active
homicide cases in Jefferson and
Deschutes counties dates to
2018. There are none in Crook
County. They include elements
of alleged mental illness, ran-
dom violence, score-settling, hit-
and-run and domestic violence.
• Gavin David Smith-Brown,
32, is suspected of killing his
mother, Gayla Smith, 65, in her
Crooked River Ranch home in
June 2018. He allegedly stole her
Subaru and drove to the Port-
land area, where he was in a two-
hour standoff with police. He
has been sent several times to the
state mental hospital in Salem
for evaluation. His next status
check is scheduled for May.
• On July 28, 2019, a man
walking his dog in the heavily
forested Wake Butte area about
6 miles west of Sunriver dis-
covered the badly decomposed
remains of Curtis Frederick
Pagel, 48. Pagel had no known
address. Detectives with the
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office believe foul play was in-
volved in Pagel’s death.
• In May, the body of Byron
Joseph Hilands, 33, was found
in an unplugged refrigerator
on land Hilands owned on
SW Culver Highway in Jeffer-
son County. One month later,
police arrested his girlfriend,
Charina Jeanette Owen, who
had a history of domestic vio-
lence against him. Owen, 37,
has pleaded not guilty to sec-
ond-degree murder, abuse of
a corpse and other charges. In
January, she was charged for
allegedly making “pruno,” or
alcohol in her jail cell.
Police: Minnesota officer went The shooting sparked protests and
for Taser, accidentally drew gun unrest in a metropolitan area already
Suspected gunman dead
in Tennessee school shooting
The police officer who fatally shot
a Black man during a traffic stop in
a Minneapolis suburb apparently in-
tended to fire a Taser, not a handgun,
as the man struggled with police, the
city’s police chief said Monday.
Brooklyn Center Police Chief
Tim Gannon described the shooting
death Sunday of Daunte Wright, 20,
as “an accidental discharge.” It hap-
pened as police were trying to arrest
Wright on an outstanding warrant.
A student opened fire on officers
responding to a report of a possible
gunman at a high school outside
Knoxville, Tennessee, on Monday.
Police shot back and killed him, au-
thorities said.
The shooting wounded an officer
and comes as the community reels
from off-campus gun violence that
has left three other students dead
this year.
on edge because of the trial of the
first of four police officers charged in
George Floyd’s death.
“I’ll Tase you! I’ll Tase you! Taser!
Taser! Taser!” the officer is heard
shouting on her bodycam footage
released at a news conference.
The governor instituted another
dusk-to-dawn curfew, but hun-
dreds of people gathered outside
the Brooklyn Center police station
Monday night, separated from doz-
ens of officers by a chain-link fence.
“It’s not necessarily that more homicides are occurring now,
it’s that the longer each one takes to resolve, the more you’ll
have pending at any one time.”
— John Hummel, Deschutes County district attorney
• Madras Police officers
believe that brothers Jakobi
Washington, 18, and Josiah
Washington, 20, were in an ex-
tended dispute with Madras
man Jonathan Bonfield, 18,
that culminated in Bonfield’s
death July 1 by a gunshot to the
chest. The pair was arrested at
their mother’s home in Madras
after police say they provided
statements that were inconsis-
tent with evidence from their
cellphone histories. A .38-cali-
ber handgun was taken as evi-
dence. The brothers and co-de-
fendants have pleaded not
guilty to second-degree mur-
der and a jury trial is scheduled
for September.
• Anthony Rubaldino
Vasquez, 20, is accused of be-
ing high on marijuana on Nov.
20 when he struck pedestrian
Leroy Eugene Hall, 90 crossing
NW Sixth Street in Redmond.
Vasquez has pleaded not guilty
to criminally negligent homi-
cide and other charges and is
scheduled to enter a plea April
27.
• Police believe Jenna Rae
Campbell, 21, shot and killed
Doretta Adaline Smith, aka
Sammons, 42, on Dec. 16
at Smith’s home in Madras.
Campbell, of Prineville, was
arrested following an alleged
run from the law that included
home invasion, gunfire and at-
tempted carjacking. A grand
jury charged Campbell under
three theories of homicide:
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first-degree manslaughter, sec-
ond-degree manslaughter and
criminally negligent homicide.
She’s pleaded not guilty and
has a pretrial hearing sched-
uled later this month.
• Randall Richard Kilby,
35, was arrested last month in
connection with three mur-
ders in southwest Bend. He’s
accused of killing Bend woman
Daphne Anne Banks, who died
Jan. 10, and brothers in law
Jeffrey Allen Taylor and Ben-
jamin Harlin Taylor, whose
bodies were discovered March
21. Last week, the home in
Romaine Village where the al-
leged killings took place myste-
riously burned.
The homicide total also in-
cludes the unsolved double ho-
micide of Ray Atkinson Jr. and
Natasha “Tasha” Newby, whose
bodies were found in a Bend
home Aug. 15.
Stephanie Rodea said she
was hurt that no one from the
police or district attorney’s of-
fice reached out to her since
her husband’s death.
“It’s hard to say what I want
in the end. I don’t know if any-
thing is going to make it better,”
she said. “I feel like I’m only
34, and I have a life sentence
of heartache. It doesn’t matter
how good or bad my life goes,
I’m always going to think about
what could have been and what
should have been.”
— Bulletin wire reports
Christopher Rodea, an elec-
trician, lost his own father at
age 15. His widow thinks it
helped make him into the per-
son he was: patient and kind,
unbothered by life’s little frus-
trations.
When people would ask
Stephanie Rodea why she had
so many children, she would
always point to her husband.
“I’d tell them, I have such an
amazing partner,” she said. “I
would never have had four if
he wasn’t so hands-on.”
The district attorney’s de-
cision Monday was a lot for
Rodea to take in emotionally,
she said. It left her lonely and
thinking about Tuesday, when
her husband would have cele-
brated his 38th birthday.
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