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City, State, Faith Leaders Speak at Vigil for Shooting Victims

Two events Friday are aimed at crisis support, following the tragedy at Silver Rail Elementary
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A Redmond teacher held a candle near the front of the stage at Bend’s Drake Park Thursday night, scrawling “Please protect our children” onto the pavers with sidewalk chalk. “This could have been us,” the teacher cried out, in between speakers on the stage. She declined to provide her name. Hundreds of people descended on […]

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Victims, Gunman of Safeway Shooting Identified *with new info, 8/30

One victim, Donald Ray Surrett Jr., attempted to disarm the shooter during an attempted rampage
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Eighty-four-year-old Glenn Bennet and 66-year-old Donald Ray Surrett Jr. were shot and killed by 20-year-old Ethan Miller at the Safeway on Highway 20 on Sunday, August 28, according to police spokesperson Sheila Miller. The first shots occurred at approximately 7:04 pm, cops said, as Miller made his way from his home in the Fox Hollow […]

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Downtown Shooting Leaves One Dead

Man shot after argument outside of a downtown nightclub
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Officials say 27-year-old Ian Cranston shot and killed 22-year-old Barry Washington Jr. outside of The Capitol, a nightclub in downtown Bend early Sunday morning.   Washington had moved to Bend a little over a month ago from the San Francisco Bay area. A memorial was erected by family and friends on the downtown Bend sidewalk where […]

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Police Make Arrest in Killing of Sunriver Swan

The swan named “Chuck” died last November
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Police in Sunriver have arrested a Bend man accused of killing a trumpeter swan near the Sunriver Nature Center in November. Cops say they received an anonymous tip leading them to 23-year-old Jordan Dupuis, who they later arrested on a charge of Unlawfully Taking of Prohibited Species, a Class A Misdemeanor. It’s illegal to hunt […]

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