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Thursday 9 November 2017
Oregon boy charged in killings of foster mother, 2 others

By STEVEN DUBOIS was being held without foster father, called emer- as his wife, Donya Adams; than 14, and the suspect’s
Associated Press bail. gency dispatchers shortly daughter, Amory Adams; sister. Robert Adams told
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A The Douglas County Sher- before 9 p.m. to report that and foster daughter, Pay- investigators he left home
16-year-old boy shot and iff’s Office and relatives of his foster son killed his fam- shience Adams. at 6:30 p.m. and returned
killed his foster mother and the teenager did not return ily. When deputies arrived, A Facebook page that be- a little more than two hours
two siblings at a home in phone messages from The the boy told them the gun longs to an Amory Adams of later to find his foster son
southwest Oregon, authori- Associated Press, but court was inside the house, Sher- Lookingglass indicates she outside the home, Merri-
ties said Wednesday. papers filed Wednesday iff’s Lt. Chris Merrifield wrote studied at Umpqua Com- field said. The boy told him
The boy surrendered to provide some details about in a probable cause affida- munity College, the same to call police and not go
deputies without incident what happened at the vit. school where a gunman inside the house.
Tuesday night and was home in Lookingglass, an When investigators entered shot 10 people dead and Adams entered the house
booked into a juvenile de- unincorporated commu- the house, they found three injured nine others in 2015. and found a gun on his
tention facility on charges nity southwest of Roseburg. bodies. Robert Adams Court records indicate Pay- bed and his deceased
of aggravated murder. He Robert Adams, the boy’s identified them to police shience Adams is younger family. q

Woman gets up to 4 years in fiance’s river kayaking death

GOSHEN, N.Y. (AP) — A Graswald, also of Pough-
woman who admitted re- keepsie, plotted to kill Via-
moving a plug from her fore to collect some of the
fiance’s kayak before it $250,000 from his life insur-
capsized in the Hudson ance policies. Graswald
River but maintained she initially was charged with
was falsely accused of second-degree murder
intentionally causing his and manslaughter.
death was sentenced on Her trial was about a month
Wednesday to up to four away in July when prosecu-
years in state prison. tors abandoned the mur-
Angelika Graswald, 37, der accusation amid ques-
pleaded guilty last summer tions about whether they
to criminally negligent ho- would be able to prove a
micide in the death of her case based mostly on her
fiance, Vincent Viafore, 46, contradictory statements.
of Poughkeepsie. Her sen- In exchange, Graswald, a
tence, of 16 months to four Latvian national, pleaded
years, means she could be guilty to the negligent-ho-
released on parole as soon micide charge. She could
as late December, based face deportation after her
on the amount of time she sentence is completed,
spent in jail awaiting trial. prosecutors said.
“I loved Vince very much Angelika Graswald leaves the courtroom after sentencing, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, in Goshen, Viafore’s relatives have
and miss him terribly,” she N.Y. Graswald, who admitted removing a plug from her fiance’s kayak in 2015 before it capsized said they wanted a harsher
said in a statement read in the Hudson River, but maintained that she was falsely accused of intentionally causing his punishment.
by her lawyer, Richard Por- death, was sentenced Wednesday to up to four years in state prison. “My brother did not de-
tale, after the hearing. “I (Jim Sabastian/Times Herlad/AP) serve to have his life end this
don’t believe I was treated turned to lay flowers on the made some suspicious about Viafore’s drowning way,” Viafore’s sister, Laura
fairly. This entire process Hudson River island that she comments to investigators, because they had been in Rice, said in a pre-sentence
was incredibly one-sided and her fiance had visited including mentioning that a bad relationship. victim impact statement.
and unjust.” The sentenc- the day he died. she had removed a plug “I wanted him dead, and “Our family feels Angelika
ing wrapped up an unusu- Police initially considered from the kayak before they now he’s gone and I’m fine should be held account-
al case that began when Viafore’s death in chop- put it in the water. with it,” she said during the able for the actions she has
Graswald had a chance py, frigid waters during the Graswald was questioned interrogation. admitted to where a short
encounter with police in- couple’s 2015 kayaking trip for 11 hours and told po- Police and prosecutors four-year sentence does
vestigators when she re- an accident. But Graswald lice she was ambivalent developed a theory that not seem just.”q

Abducted woman, 94, frees herself from car trunk after hours

By TERRY TANG, The woman’s ordeal be- The unidentified woman her kidnapper, how she tim.
Associated Press gan early Tuesday when spent about seven hours freed herself from the trunk “I thought someone was
PHOENIX (AP) — the man in his 30s forced his in the trunk until she man- or if anything was stolen getting busted for some-
A 94-year-old Phoenix way into her home in the aged to get out. during the abduction. thing. I didn’t know it was a
woman freed herself from suburb of Scottsdale, said A passer-by saw her and He said the investigation kidnapping,” Czupek said.
the trunk of her car hours Sgt. Ben Hoster, a police called 911. The woman was still in its early stages. He realized the connection
after she was abducted spokesman. was taken to a hospital for Brian Czupek, who lives in to his neighborhood when
from her condominium The man tied the woman an evaluation, but Hoster the same complex as the he saw the woman’s home
by a man who put her in up, put her in the trunk of declined to comment on victim, was walking home roped off with police tape.
the trunk, drove the car her four-door sedan and whether she suffered inju- from the mall Tuesday af- Most residents of the com-
away and parked it at a drove it a short distance ries. ternoon when he saw po- plex are retired people
shopping mall, police said to the Scottsdale Fashion Hoster also would not say lice vehicles in the parking who stay in Arizona during
Wednesday. Square mall, Hoster said. whether the woman knew lot and officers with the vic- the winter, Czupek said. q