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Arizona Bat Im Star SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2014 PAGE A2 Editor: Hipolito R. Corella 520-573-4101 metroazstarnet.com Slain robbery suspect was Calif, fugitive peace officer, online records show. No other information was available. Weed is in the Mount Shasta area, near the Oregon border. Sgt.

Pete Dugan, a spokesman for the Tucson Police Depart names of the five officers who fired their guns during the incident The dead man was identified as Santiago Avila, 35, who was wanted on a warrant out of the city of Weed in Siskiyou County, according to online records. Tucson police identify 5 officers involved in Thursday's shooting By Carmen Duarte ARIZONA DAILY STAR The suspected bank robber shot and killed by Tucson police Thursday was a fugitive wanted in California in connection with an assault on a peace officer. On Friday, police released the name of the man shot and the He walked to a blue Jeep Cherokee and retrieved two boxes of ammunition, police said. Officers shot Avila as he walked back toward the bank doors with a handgun in one hand and the ammunition boxes in the other, police said. There were 16 people inside the bank and no one was injured in the incident.

Police said Avila's gun was See ROBBERY, A10 ple times, was killed shortly after 1:30 p.m. after he ignored several commands to drop a handgun while outside the bank, police said. Police said Avila had walked out of the bank armed with a handgun as officers arrived in response to a call about a robbery in progress. A teller had given to police a description of the robber over the phone. Avila ignored officers' repeated orders to stop.

Santiago Avila ment, said five officers fired their guns at Avila during the incident at the Wells Fargo bank at 145 E. 22nd St. Avila, who was shot multi Officers of the Weed Police Department arrested Avila on Dec. 16, 2013, for obstructing a peace officer and for battery on a No bighorns are known to have died in Catalinas over past month KELLY PRESNELL ARIZONA DAILY STAR GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION UP 'A' MOUNTAIN Hundreds take a symbolic walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in Los Dorados' 45th annual Good Friday cross procession. Started in 1969 by David Herrera, now 93, the walk commemorates Jesus' suffering when he was led up a hill to his crucifixion.

It takes about 20 people to carry the cross on the 1.4-mile walk, stopping at the 14 Stations of the Cross on their way up. Sunrise services will take place on the peak Sunday at 6. See more from the procession at azstarnet.comgallery Woman found not guilty of treating two vulnerable adults as her slaves fifth lamb birth and the apparent good health of the others," Hart said. "We have seen all of the lambs in the field, apparently healthy, over the past couple of weeks." MONITORING CONTINUES Global Positioning System collars have helped wildlife officers keep track of the surviving sheep and confirm that they are still moving. "As far as we know, all of the remaining (adult) sheep are alive, and there are daily monitoring efforts to confirm this," Hart said.

"With that said, we do have one collar that may have malfunctioned, and because of the remote location we are currently unable to confirm the sheep's status." Also unknown is the status of a yearling ram, the only one of the 31 sheep transplanted from the Yuma area that wasn't fitted with a GPS collar. "As you can imagine, without a collar it is difficult to get anything more than an incidental sighting," Hart said. Collar batteries are expected to last about two years. Each collar has a release mechanism that will See SHEEP, AlO By Doug Kreutz ARIZONA DAILY STAR Bighorn sheep apparently have had their best month in the Catalina Mountains since 31 of the animals were transplanted to the range north of Tucson in November. After 16 of the sheep died in the first four months following the release, no additional deaths have been confirmed since March 16, state wildlife officials said Friday.

Meanwhile, five bighorn lambs have been born this year in the Catalinas and all apparently were thriving when last observed by biologists. "We remain cautiously optimistic that the project will succeed long-term" in its goal of re-establishing a bighorn herd that disappeared from the Catalinas in the 1990s, said Mark Hart, spokesman for the Arizona Game and Fish Department The department and a citizens advisory group are overseeing the project, which has drawn support from some citizens and criticism from others who decry the deaths of the bighorns and the killing of three mountain lions that preyed on sheep. "The lack of mortality over the last month is a good sign, as is confirmation of a Cohen argued that the victims were never forced to do anything and were free to leave whenever they chose to. He noted that the male victim worked a full-time job. "The state has completely failed to meet their burden," Cohen said.

The victims came to live with the Rasleys after the woman they were living with died. They initially intended to stay only a short time but remained for nearly two years. The victims now live in their own apartment. Delaney said that despite the loss at trial, the outcome for the victims was still positive because they no longer live with the Rasleys and are safe from any possible harm. Contact reporter Patrick McNamara at 573-4241 or On Twitter pm929.

the victims in this case. Rasley, 62, was originally charged and brought to trial along with her husband, Edgar Rasley. Pamela Rasley was not present for the trial because of her health. The Attorney General's Office dropped the charges against Edgar Rasley in midtrial Thursday, however, after testimony from both victims pointed only to his wife. Under direct and cross-examination, the female victim said it was Pamela Rasley who forced her to remain outside of the Rasleys' mobile home, in the 8500 block of South Van Buren Avenue, where they lived.

The woman said she was made to do yardwork on a daily basis and had to drink from a garden hose if she was thirsty. Neighbors of the Rasleys called police in 2012 after noticing the victims outside frequently. Assistant Arizona Attorney General Jesse Del-aney questioned the woman about what she did if she needed to go inside the Rasleys' house during the days. "I knocked, but they wouldn't let me in," she said. She also testified that she was forced to eat and use the bathroom outside.

Cohen disputed the claims, noting testimony from a caseworker for a dis -abled person who formerly lived with Rasleys as well who said she had seen the victims inside the home often. The witness, who once was a caseworker for the victim as well, said the victim had to be spoken to at her previous home about urinating outside. By Patrick McNamara ARIZONA DAILY STAR A woman accused of forcing two developmen-tally disabled people who lived at her home to spend long days outside and work without pay has been found not guilty. Pamela Rasley was charged with two counts of vulnerable adult abuse. The trial was held in the courtroom of Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley.

"Mrs. Rasley is someone who is in her 60s, who has diabetes and is confined to a wheelchair," Rasley's attorney, Jordan Cohen, said to jurors on Thursday in Pima County Superior Court. "You have heard no evidence whatsoever that they (the victims) were unable to protect themselves." The Arizona Daily Star has chosen not to identify UA names Oregon VP new chief of research Wyatt Earp gun sells for $225K at auction and clinical psychologist, Espy holds a bachelor's degree from Rice University and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Houston. Besides serving as research boss at the Oregon university, she was dean of its graduate school, overseeing more than 100 master's, PhD and graduate certificate programs. "The University of Arizona is an outstanding public research university, and I am honored to be joining the leadership team," Espy said in a UA news release Tolbert, UA's previous head of research, left the post less than a year after Hart took over as president in mid-2012.

Tolbert returned to full-time research work in UA's Department of Neurosci-ence and still receives her $250,000 vice presidential salary. Contact reporter Carol Ann Alaimo at calaimoazstarnet.com or 573-4138. By Carol Ann Alaimo ARIZONA DAILY STAR The University of Arizona has a new senior vice president of research, one who will earn 50 percent more than her predecessor. Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president of research and innovation at the University of Oregon, starts her new job in Tucson on May 27 at an annual salary of $375,000. She takes over the post previously occupied by UA's Leslie Tolbert, who was paid $250,000 a year.

"We're very excited for Dr. Espy to join the UA and bring her talent and expertise to campus," said Andrea Smiley a spokeswoman for UA President Ann Weaver Hart. Hart approved the pay hike because of Espy's qualifications and the increased demands of the position as UA puts a greater focus on research, Smiley said. Espy won the job over two other finalists who emerged after a national search. A clinical neuroscientist 0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SCOTTSDALE A gun thought to have been carried by Wyatt Earp during the famous O.K.

Corral shootout in Tombstone has sold at auction for $225,000. A telephone bidder in New Mexico made the winning bid for the Colt .45 revolver Thursday night. The Scottsdale auction of numerous items related to Earp and his family brought in more than $445,000, officials with J. Levine Auction Appraisal said. The auction house initially valued the Colt between $100,000 and $150,000.

The items belonged to the estate of Glenn Boyer, an author of several books on Earp. Boyer died in February 2013. Some have questioned the items' authenticity, while others say Boyer was a credible researcher. JOSH SKALNIAK OLSON COMMUNICATIONS This Colt .45 revolver is believed to have been carried by Wyatt Earp during the O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone.

The gun sold for $225,000 at an Earp auction. Josh Levine, who heads the auc- include a notarized, sworn affidavit tion house, said the Colt comes with signed by Boyer in 1994. There is also several pages of documents testifying a letter from Colt that states the gun to its authenticity. The documents was made in the time that Earp lived. Arizona Batlij Star 4850 S.

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