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The Arizona Republic SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2002 B3 Km J- I Paul Maryniak, metro editor, 602.444.NEWS (6397) orpaul.maryniakarizonarepublic.com A wall of silence in Apache Junction It's about the truth. It's not about persecuting a police officer who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy. It's not about embarrassing a city which paid the boy's family $1.65 million for a "wrongful death" it contends wasn't wrongful. And it's certainly not about defending the boy, who had a history of drug abuse and a knife in his hand that awful April evening in 2001. I 1 7 WSH K0 fir-' 1 Courtesy Hampton Inn's Save A Landmark program Recreating a landmark Angel Del Gadillo helps paint the world's longest map of Route 66 at the Meteor City Trading Post in Meteor City on Wednesday.

The original map had been covered with advertisements. It's about our right to know what really happened that night, 34 seconds after Sgt. Robert Haywood walked into Ali Altug's kitchen. It's about the truth. I heard somewhere Laurie Roberts Republic columnist Israeli market street comes to Valley that it'll set you free.

There is, however, no evidence of that in Apache Junction. Nearly a month after paying off the family in a deal shrouded in secrecy, the city refuses to produce public documents about Haywood's background, information that might shed some essential light both about the cop on the street and the people who put him there. Altug had recently come out of By Michael Clancy The Arizona Republic Continuing terrorist attacks in Israel have curtailed tourism there, so local members of the Jewish community are trying something different: bringing Israel to America. The Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and other organizations, pointing out that Israel's economy relies largely on revenue from visitors, is sponsoring a three-day sale of Jewish goods straight from Ben Yehuda Street, a shopping area in Jerusalem. As many as 700 volunteers will staff 90 booths, each representing a shop.

Products will include art, Judaica, clothing, perfume, gift items, books, food and other items. Proceeds will go to the shopkeepers in Israel, only two of whom will accompany the products to Arizona. The effort follows a stop in Los Angeles and precedes one in Tucson. Cathy Wolf, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, said she expects up to 4,000 people to patronize the merchants. Besides the availability of goods straight from Israel, the mall might interest non-Jews who would like a glimpse of the new Jewish Community Campus, she said.

The goods will be available from 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the new Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale; and 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Tri-City Jewish Community Center, 1521 S. Indian Bend Road, Tempe.

The Ben Yehuda Mall event is the first in a series called the Heartbeat of Israel. VALLEY BRIEFS Jury to return Monday in ASU hit-run case MESA Jurors deliberated all day Friday but did not reach a verdict in the case of an attorney accused of murder and leaving the scene of a fatality in the death of an Arizona State University student. The central question in the case of Mark Aaron Torre, 29, is whether he failed to avoid hitting Jessica Woodin, 18, because he was impaired by alcohol and speeding, or because she suddenly ran into the path of his Ford Mustang without warning. Woodin, a pedestrian, was crossing Apache Boulevard at McAllister Avenue against a green light on Aug. 18, 2001, when she was struck by Torre's car.

She died instantly. Jurors will return Monday to Maricopa County Superior Court to resume deliberations. Charges to be sought in bicyclist's death TEMPE Police intend to seek first-degree murder charges against a driver who fatally struck a bicyclist early Tuesday on Broadway Road. Neil A. Goldsberry, 21, was driving a stolen 1988 silver Honda Accord when he crossed into oncoming traffic to intentionally hit Stephan Pratt, 26, police said.

Golds-berry was arrested at a Tem-pe apartment that afternoon. The victim and the suspect knew each other, according to Tempe police Officer Jeff Lane. "A friend of both of them said they had 'taxed' Mr. Goldsberry, which means they had forced him to give them drugs," Lane said. "He was upset by (Pratt) taking his drugs, so that's what started this whole thing." Pratt, who suffered severe brain injuries, died Friday, according to Sgt.

Dan Masters. Goldsberry is being held in Tempe City Jail on a parole violation charge. Video of 2 ex-pilots will not be released MIAMI A Miami judge has ruled that security video filmed when two former America West pilots walked through an airport checkpoint could not be released to the media. The Federal Aviation Administration had asked that the tape be protected, said Bill Pearson, attorney for former pilot Thomas Cloyd. Cloyd, 44, and Christopher Hughes, 41, both of Gilbert, are accused of trying to fly while being intoxicated.

The two face felony charges of operating an aircraft and a motor vehicle under the influence, and a misdemeanor charge of culpable negligence. The ruling came Wednesday, the same day the judge denied a motion to dismiss the case. The defense argued that the case should be heard in federal, not state, court. The trial is scheduled for Nov. 4.

drug rehab. He was doing fine, his parents said, until April 19, 2001. On that day they confronted him for taking something. Things escalated and his father called 911. Ali, they believed, was trying to hurt himself.

Haywood was the first to arrive. Thirty-four seconds later, Altug was dead. Reha Altug says his son had a knife to his arm and was threatening to cut himself when the officer shot him. Haywood told investigators the boy was coming at him. "As he does he raises his arms and he starts, and he, and like, like in a flailing motion and I'm like oh my God, he's coming, this, this kid's going to stab me." The Pinal County attorney said the shooting was justified, and an investigation by Glendale police found no wrongdoing.

But still there are questions. Questions about why Haywood was on Klonapin, an anti-anxiety drug given to people prone to panic attacks. Questions about the fact that It's about the truth. I heard somewhere that it'll set you free. There is, however, no evidence of that in Apache Junction.

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Questions about why Haywood was forced off the SWAT team three months before the shooting. If the city has its way, we'll never have answers. After the Altugs sued Apache Junction, the city asked the judge to allow certain evidence about Haywood's background to remain hidden during the trial. After the judge refused, the city offered to settle on the condition that the documents remain confidential. The documents concern Haywood's January 2001 departure from the SWAT team.

An internal probe was launched after Haywood complained his removal was improper. He has since sued the city over his ouster. What's in those files that make them such a secret? The Republic has filed suit to open Haywood's records. Thus far, all the city has released are parts of his personnel file, documents that demonstrate he is a skilled officer who is passionate about his job and highly regarded by many. However, information about "several bouts of poor judgment" is blacked out.

And then there is the secret SWAT stuff. It's not so much that we have a right to know, though we do. It's that we, all of us, have a need to know how the city supervised a sergeant who was taking medication for panic attacks, and whether it adequately cooperated in getting at the truth of Ali Altug's death. "We live in a community with a spate of these incidents. A man is accused of stealing a loaf of bread and is dead inside Fry's," said David Bodney, attorney for the newspaper.

"A woman accused of phonying up a prescription is killed, shot by an officer. A 16-year-old cries out for help and an officer shoots him dead. If the public is not entitled to know about these incidents, what are we entitled to know about?" I'd ask the folks in Apache Junction, but they aren't talking. Reach Roberts at laurie.robertsarizonarepublic.com or at (602) 444-8635. AMERICAN! ARIZONA GRAND CANYON STATE SEE Pubdcty tridad on tht Now York Stock Exchingi Eli ELBACEt iIWB3G SAL Huge savings on all New and Pre-Owned Volvos in stock! 2002 S80 2.9 ASR 2002 V70 WAGONS 2002 S60 2.4 TURBO 2003 S40 ASR 1 "atKmam0m IMIIIIU.

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