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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.
He has been cooperative
with police, according to a
news release, and there is
no indication that drugs or
alcohol were a factor.
The southbound lanes of
Highway 395 were closed
for about three hours for an
investigation.
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