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TOPPENISH, Wash. -- Investigators are continuing to search for those responsible for the assault of two men and the shooting of three others in the early hours of Saturday in the Parker Bridge Road area.
The injured men -- including one taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle -- are all expected to survive, authorities said.
Yakima County Sheriff's Chief of Detectives Stew Graham gave the following account of the incident, which began in Yakima when a 34-year-old Zillah man offered to drive three men home after all four were involved in a crash.
The car was just arriving at the three men's home near the intersection of Yakima Valley Highway and Parker Bridge Road when they saw a man running from the area and they came under fire.
One of the gunshot victims, a 38-year-old man, was treated at the Toppenish Community Hospital and released. The other two were taken to Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center, where a 27-year-old with a gunshot wound to the back remained Monday. A hospital spokesman said he was in satisfactory condition.
The third man, 26 years old, was later transferred to Harborview, where he was listed in satisfactory condition with a leg injury, authorities said.
The driver was not seriously injured, but was hit by window glass shattered by the large-caliber rifle rounds fired at his vehicle.
As deputies were taking their report at the house where the shooting took place, two brothers arrived. They said three unknown men had broken into their home, assaulted them and then left with some cash.
Graham said the victims did not know why they were attacked. But it is believed it was their attackers who opened fire on the car.
No descriptions were available for the suspects. They were seen leaving in a white vehicle, perhaps a van or sport utility.
Five years ago Sheriff Irwin proposed the 3/10th tax to hire more deputies. He was going to hire 17 more deputies, plus other staff for his office, more prosecutors and city police officers and the juvenile jail was going to be operated at full capacity. YSO is down FIVE deputies from five years ago. Most cities shifted funding to their pd's and raped the 3/10th tax. The juvi' capacity was expanded then contracted. We are less safe in Yakima County.
REJECT the 3/10th tax. Its a $50Million failure. If it's renewed it will be a $100Million failure. Money has never solved a problem. We need a long term solution to a long term criminal problem. How many more people need to be shot? SHOT WITH REAL BULLETS!
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I meant to say "3/10th tax."
I agree with lobo in this issue. The bottom line is what really counts, and the bottom line is that the politicians seem to have indeed shifted the funds to other-than-crime-fighting by robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Knowitall, would you rather keep pouring money into lost causes, dumping it into a black hole where there are no results, than holding our public officials accountable for where and how they spent it? The county is the biggest offender. They bamboozled us into believing they would not reduce, but would increase law enforcement if they had the extra money. In the end, they diverted it elsewhere, after the election, to pay for other needs.
We need to find alternative and more efficient use of the funds we have by reassessing and addressing law enforcement priorities, such as violent crime, first. Our TRUE problem is the liberal west-side legislature who votes their pet social issues that protect their coveted positions. Issues such as welfare for illegals are more important than protecting the safety of the taxpayers, their real bosses.
More sand down Knowitall's bottomless pit.
Just wait how bad it gets when people dont renew it. Its bad now but it will get worse.
Report ViolationThe current 3/10th tax expires at the end of 2010. The Sheriff put it on the ballot now so that if it fails, they will have time to develop Plan B. Plan A is a failure. Voting no on 3/10th is not going to change anything other than force the elected leaders to develop a plan that will actually reduce crime.
Remember YPD proposed a utility tax to hire 20 officers and a bunch of station dwellers. That tax failed and then the city found another way to hire more officers, more stationites and even double the size of the law & justice center.
YHR and the Tri Cities TV stations have done a terrible job representing the people of this community on issues such as this. Even the Seattle Times will dig into the Seattle democratic power base when they are failing (see Mayor Nickels).
Station dwellers. LOL Thats funny. And I don't know what the heck to think of this story. A couple of twists in it. Wow.
Report ViolationNot sure how the "3/10th Tax" tax impacts this story. Clearly Yakima has been breeding and developing a criminal community for decades and it will take a series of long term solutions to deal with that.
The H/R's recent list of expenditures looks like a serious effort that will be seriously missed if removed. Anyone that tells you these resources will continued to be funded (from somewhere) if the tax is removed risk nothing if they are wrong - they got what they wanted and nothing else matters.
I know that I am only a product of a Yakima education, but it seems to me that if the (3/10% tax) isn't solving the undeniable problem - maybe we picked too small of a band-aid.
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