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NEWS A6 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 OSP provides shot of suspect vehicle from fatal hit-and-run HERMISTON HERALD Oregon State Police have released a possible photo of the vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Hermiston in August. The crash took place Aug. 31 about 2:30 a.m. on Highway 395 near Sherrell Chevrolet, killing Antonia Cobarubias, 41, of Herm- iston as she was pushing a shopping cart. Left behind at the scene was a passen- ger-side mirror and a dark red bumper that appeared to belong to an Acura Integra from between 1994-2001. On Thursday afternoon, OSP released two stills from a security camera that they believe show the vehicle in question in the parking lot of Rocket Mart, which is Staff photo by Jessica Pollard Umatilla County Fire District 1 responded to a shed that was fully engulfed after 10:30 a.m. Friday morning. Fires burn shed, homes in Hermiston HERMISTON HERALD Smoke fi lled the sky on South Highway 395 Fri- day morning as Uma- tilla County Fire District 1 arrived to a structure fi re on Cherry Avenue, near the Hermiston Veterans of For- eign Wars building. According to Battal- ion Chief Ed Clark, a shed behind a home caught fi re after 10:30 a.m. on Fri- day. He said by the time fi refi ghters arrived, fl ames were shooting in the air. The fi re was put out within 10 minutes, but the shed was a complete loss. No one was injured in the fi re, and the blaze did not spread to the nearby home. Clark said the cause of the fi re is still under investigation. Shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday, UCFD 1 was dis- patched to a structure fi re at 81232 Vetter Lane. Battalion Chief Ed Clark said the residents had been burning garbage in the grass near the house before the Contributed photo by OSP Oregon State Police pulled this still from a surveillance camera at Rocket Mart in Hermiston, which shows a possible suspect vehicle from a fatal hit-and-run on Aug. 31. just north of the crash site. They are requesting that anyone who can identify the vehicle or was in the area of Rocket Mart on Aug. 31 about 2:30 a.m. call Ore- gon State Police by dial- ing *OSP (*677). They can reference case number SP19-313012. The victim’s family is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the driver’s conviction. Pedestrian killed in Stanfi eld crash identifi ed fi re spread to the house and the surrounding fi eld. Clark expects the building will be a total loss due to heavy smoke damage and shat- tered windows. While burning is allowed on select days between Oct. 1 and May 31 in Umatilla County, Thursday was not a burn day. A post on Facebook by UCFD indicated that Thurs- day’s fi re was the second in three days where an unat- tended burn pile had spread to a home. By JADE MCDOWELL NEWS EDITOR The pedestrian killed by a vehicle Saturday morning in Stanfi eld has been iden- tifi ed as Steven Adam Gal- legos, 30, from Echo. According to a news release from Stanfi eld Police Department, witness statements and evidence at the scene indicate Gallegos was walking southbound on Highway 395 in Stanfi eld in the lane of travel near South Edwards Road at 12:58 a.m. when he struck by a vehi- cle also traveling south- bound. He was pronounced deceased at the scene. The vehicle was a 2002 Chrysler Sebring oper- ated by Gregory Ayling, 44, from Granger, Wash- ington. He and his chil- dren, who were passengers, were not injured. Stanfi eld police chief Byron Zum- walt said Ayling immedi- ately stopped and did what he could to render fi rst aid, perform CPR and call 911. 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