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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Thursday, April 29:
Deschutes County cases: 7,949 (125 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 73 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 977 (10 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,118 (15 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 32 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 182, 916 (740 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,491 (1 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized
at St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 36 (5 in ICU)
EMAIL
(Jan. 1)
120
7-day
average
90
new
cases
103 new cases
(April 23)
100
90
74 new cases
80
(April 10)
50
new
cases
70
60
(Feb. 17)
50
(Nov. 14)
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
16 new cases
(July 16)
30
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
March 2020
110
(Nov. 27)
47 new cases
9 new cases
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130
(Dec. 4)
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your face. 3. Avoid close contact with sick people. 4. Stay
6 feet from others and wear a face covering or mask.
5. Cover a sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
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Bend man gets 13 years
in horrific abuse case
assaulted her with his fists and
a long wooden stake.
A Bend man will serve 13
“He would poke at her and
years in prison for assaulting
strike at her in a downward
his then-girlfriend.
motion so there were inju-
On Thursday in Deschutes
ries all over the left side of her
County Circuit Court, Wil-
body,” said Stacy Neil, a pros-
liam Gerald Williams was
ecutor with the Deschutes
sentenced to 160 months in
County District Attorney’s Of-
fice, at the sentencing
prison . Two days ear-
hearing Thursday.
lier, he pleaded guilty
Police learned of
to first-degree assault,
the abuse and that it
second-degree as-
had been going on for
sault and attempted
many months, Neil
first-degree sodomy.
said. In addition to
On Dec. 13, Wil-
the “pain rides,” Wil-
liams’ then-girlfriend
liams had kicked her
was admitted to the
Williams
with heavy boots on,
ICU at St. Charles
thrown items at her, split her
Bend with life-threatening in-
forehead by striking her with
juries: a lacerated kidney as
the blunt end of a knife, burned
well as fractured ribs, a frac-
her with a lighter and subjected
tured spine, a broken cheek-
bone and a nose broken in sev- her to repeated unwanted sex-
ual contact, Neil said.
eral places, according to court
On one occasion, he tried
proceedings. The woman told
to force the woman to sexually
police at the hospital Williams
abuse her dog, Neil said.
had forced her to go on “pain
“She described a very con-
rides” in his car, in which he
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
trolling environment where
she was restricted with what
food she could eat,” Neil said.
“She was forced to drink the
defendant’s urine when she
wanted something to drink.”
Williams was arrested that
month and charged with 25
criminal counts, including the
Measure 11 offenses of first-de-
gree assault and first-degree
kidnapping. The maximum
he could have served in prison
was 40 years.
On Thursday, Williams
appeared by video from the
Deschutes County jail. He de-
clined to address the court
when given the chance.
“Mr. Williams is taking re-
sponsibility for his actions,”
said his lawyer, Leslie Nitcher.
“He does acknowledge that his
behavior was not appropriate.”
Judge Alison Emerson fur-
ther assigned Williams seven
years post-prison supervision.
Reporter: 541-383-0325,
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COVID-19
Gov. Brown extends Oregon
emergency as virus cases spike
Associated Press
SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown
on Thursday extended Ore-
gon’s state of emergency for
COVID-19 until June 28, say-
ing a fourth surge of the pan-
demic is being driven by vari-
ants of the disease and causing
increased cases and hospital-
izations.
The declaration allows
Brown to issue executive or-
ders restricting activity and
helps the state utilize federal
COVID-relief funds, the gov-
ernor’s office said.
Brown is putting 15 coun-
ties that encompass the state’s
biggest cities into the state’s
extreme risk category starting
Friday, imposing restrictions
that include banning indoor
restaurant dining.
The restaurant sector has
objected to Brown’s action,
with the Oregon Restaurant &
Lodging Association declaring
that the state lost more than
1,000 food service businesses
in 2020 and that 200 more
closed permanently so far this
year.
Brown says her actions are
temporary.
“I intend to fully reopen
our economy by the end of
patio
world
June, and the day is approach-
ing when my emergency or-
ders can eventually be lifted,”
Brown said in a statement.
“How quickly we get there is
up to each and every one of us
doing our part.”
Brown said more than 1.2
million people in the state have
been fully vaccinated, but the
“overwhelming majority” of
new cases are from younger,
unvaccinated residents. Ore-
gon’s population is more than
4.2 million.
She said hospitalizations
nearly doubled in the last two
weeks, to more than 300.
OBITUARIES
The Oregon House, on a
largely party-line vote, ap-
proved a bill that combines
storage requirements for fire-
arms with a narrower ban on
guns in some public places.
The 34-24 vote on Thurs-
day sends the revamped Sen-
ate Bill 554 back to the Sen-
ate, which can vote to accept
the changes — and send it to
Gov. Kate Brown — or reject
it and force a joint panel to
negotiate the differences.
Support came exclusively
from Democrats. Three of
the 37 Democrats voted no:
Paul Evans of Monmouth,
David Gomberg of Otis and
Mark Meek of Oregon City.
No Republicans voted for it.
Two Republicans were ex-
cused.
The vote took place after
close to three hours of debate.
The bill does not have an
emergency clause, which
means that if it becomes law,
opponents have 90 days from
the close of the 2021 session
to obtain 74,680 voter sig-
natures to force a statewide
election.
Part of the revamped bill
proposes requirements for
firearms locks and storage al-
ready written into a separate
House bill, which the House
sent back to committee.
Under the revamped bill,
guns must have trigger or
cable locks, be stored in a
locked container or in a gun
room. An offense is a Class
C violation, which carries a
maximum fine of $500, un-
less someone under age 18
obtains access, in which case
it is a Class A violation with a
maximum fine of $2,000. No
jail time is imposed for vio-
lations.
The bill also requires
prompt reporting of stolen
firearms. Its first sections are
named in honor of Cindy
Yuille and Steve Forsyth, who
died on Dec. 11, 2012, in
the Clackamas Town Center
shootings. The assault-style
weapon used to kill them was
found to have been stolen.
The other part of the re-
vamped bill narrows the
scope of a firearms ban in-
cluded in the original SB 554,
which passed the Senate on
March 25.
The changes would still bar
the estimated 300,000 holders
of Oregon concealed-hand-
gun licenses from bringing
firearms into some public
places. State courts, which
often are in buildings main-
tained by counties, already
are off-limits to firearms.
But the scope of the ban
would be narrower under the
House version.
Licensees would be barred
from bringing firearms into
the Capitol, though not from
other state buildings as origi-
nally proposed in the Senate.
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