ARTS & CULTURE LIFE & SPORTS SCHOOL LIFE POLITICAL WEEKLY BEAT HEALTH & FITNESS Tigers put Huskies Good Apple Award on ice San Jacinto Fruits and to maintain vegetables may its status as a lower risk non-sanctuary of peripheral Comic books at Two wars changed city Noli Indian School artery disease A3 America forever A6 A7 B1 C1 D1 Thursday, January 4, 2018 VOL XVII EDITION 1 www.thevalleychronicle.com 75 cents (including tax) Local photojournalist helps shooting victim until first responders arrive Suspect accused of three counts of attempted murder New Year’s Day ■ KYLE SELBY REPORTER A New Year’s Day shooting at a Florida Avenue convenience Nathan Wilking / RVCNEWS store in Hemet left a woman A white pickup truck lost control and overturned Friday night, fatally injuring wounded but brought out the the driver. He was 73-years-old. best from a brave local photo- journalist who administered first aid until help arrived. Holiday weekend traffic tragedies Photojournalist, Miguel Two solo-vehicle accidents leave drivers deceased Shannon, arrived on the scene after hearing gunshots at the ■ HEMET POLICE On Sunday, Dec. 31, at about Circle K in the 600 block of DEPARTMENT 11:21 p.m., City of Hemet Po- W. Florida Avenue around 4:55 lice Officers responded to the a.m., New Year’s Day. On Friday, Dec. 29, at about area of Lyon and Florida Ave- Shannon headed toward - in- 11:45 p.m., City of Hemet Police nues regarding a vehicle colli- stead of away - from the fracas Officers responded to the area sion. The driver of a vehicle was and found 35-year-old Michelle of State Street and Domenigoni traveling eastbound Florida Ave Hill with gunshot wounds to Parkway regarding a solo-vehicle approaching Lyon Ave, swerved her upper body. collision. The initial investigation from the roadway, and traveled “I got my gloves from my indicated the driver of the vehicle into a gas station parking lot then vehicle, ran back to her, and was swerving and traveling at a collided with a pole. The driver applied pressure on her wound high rate of speed before leaving of the vehicle was transported to try to save her life,” Shannon Miguel Shannon / Facebook the roadway. The vehicle over- to a nearby hospital where he Local photojournalist Miguel Shannon (pictured), responded to a shooting after hearing turned and the driver suffered 4SEE SHANNON ON A-2 gunshots, then assisted the bleeding victim until police and paramedics arrived. fatal injuries. 4SEE ACCIDENTS ON A-2 It’s a bird! It’s a plane! ...What was that? SpaceX launch stirs social media frenzy ■ KYLE SELBY REPORTER If you were looking up at the sky on the night of Dec. 22, you most likely caught the glint of an iridescent unidentified flying object taking to the stars. Fortu- nately, our planet was not the target of an intergalactic invasion this day. “Well, at first I thought it was an airplane but im- mediately I realized that it was too bright to be an So Cal Mini Horse Sanctuary airplane,” said Nati Gallardo, Hemet resident who The Rescue Angels and their furry companions clad in their steampunk attire saw the sky light up while she was driving. “Then march in the 2018 Rose Parade with confidence. fear set in, and I thought about my family and the possibility of a missile strike from North Korea, and Hemet mini horses march the fear of dying.” While many immediately hopped on social media to pollute the web with conspiracy theories about nu- in the 2018 Rose Parade clear warfare or little green men, they were actually So Cal Mini Horse Sanctuary walk for all the world to see tweeting about the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa ■ KYLE SELBY Rose Parade presented by Honda Barbara, California. Photo by Nati Gallardo REPORTER in Pasadena. This year, Hemet’s “As I watched it create its shape, then I realized if The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket photographed by Hemet res- own So Cal Mini Horse Sanc- ident Nati Gallardo, near the intersection of Florida and Every new year, viewers around 4SEE SPACEX FALCON 9 ON A-2 Sanderson avenues. the world tune in to the annual 4SEE PARADE ON A-2 Women’s pay still lagging ■ METRO SERVICE Fans of the CBS hit television show “The Big Bang Theory” may have learned that, in 2014, the five original cast members rene- gotiated their salaries to earn $1 million per episode. The original cast - largely male - includes John- Metro Service ny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Simon Female workers still earn on average $.80 to every $1 that a man earns. Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, and Kaley Cuoco. Two actresses later joined played out with “The Big Bang The- ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the show, becoming mainstays of ory” cast is not an anomaly. Whether and Statistics Canada, respectively. the comedy. However, newcomers in Hollywood or elsewhere, many Women’s Policy Research says that, if Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch women still earn less than their male current trends continue, females will haven’t earned nearly as much as counterparts. not match males in pay until 2059. their co-stars for years. Recently, Although the gender pay gap Race and age also play a role in the original actors agreed to a pay has been getting steadily smaller, the disparity in pay between males cut so that Bialik and Rauch could women still earn roughly $.80 to and females, with Asian American earn more. every $1 earned by men in both the Unfortunately, the scenario that United States and Canada, accord- 4SEE WOMEn’S PAY ON A-5 A2 NEWS January 4 - 10, 2018 www.thevalleychronicle.com SHANNON The officer immediate- FROM PAGE A1 ly called for backup, and Hemet Police conducted said in an interview with a neighborhood sweep, NBC 4 News. eventually finding Carter Shannon says he stayed hiding in a nearby yard with the victim until with his discarded hand- Hemet Fire and AMR gun just a couple-hundred were on scene. yards away. Not long after, Hemet “I guess he couldn’t take police arrested 39-year- that they weren’t together old Hemet resident Kevin anymore,” said Wynetta Carter, for investigation of Pennington, the victim’s three counts of attempted Photo courtesy of Hemet Police Department mother. “‘I really want murder. Police arrested 39-year-old Kevin him to pay for it, because Followed by a series Carter Jan. 1 on suspicion of three she’s been nothing but of gunshots, nearby sur- counts of attempted murder. good to him.” veillance footage caught Hill and Carter were Carter walking away from opened fire on the officer, married but had recently So Cal Mini Horse Sanctuary the scene, still armed, who had a ride-along in separated due to Carter’s So Cal Mini Horse Sanctuary houses more than 40 rescued mini horses on their 10-acre property. according to authorities. the vehicle, and bullets alleged drug addiction, One Hemet officer nearly struck nearby pe- according to relatives . PARADE soon spotted Carter near destrians, according to The two have a young FROM PAGE A1 Latham Avenue and at- police reports. Author- son together, and Hill tempted to apprehend ities say the officer did was trying to make their tuary made their dreams him. Carter, however, not fire back. relationship work for the come true by participat- child’s sake, according to ing in the New Year’s cel- the mother. ebration. Pennington also told “There are so many ‘big NBC 4 News that Hill horse’ rescues, and nobody “should be OK,” and is is helping the minis,” said recovering. sanctuary founder Jeanne “I really hope she sur- Candelario. “How on Earth vives the incident,” Shan- do we get more help? I non later wrote on his asked myself, ‘What’s the Facebook page. biggest platform in the Nobody else was seri- world?’ Of course, it’s the ously hurt during Carter’s Rose Parade.” shooting spree. He is now So Cal Mini Horse Sanc- in Riverside County Jail, tuary is a nonprofit mini- facing three counts of at- horse rescue and is known tempted murder. as one of the largest in the If anyone has any in- country. After Candelario NBC 4 News formationw on this case, got injured in a bad riding Michelle Hill, 35, suffered gunshot wounds in her torso before being dis- please contact Detec- accident over a decade covered by Miguel Shannon, a local photojournalist. Hill and her alleged tive Matthew Gomez at ago, she and her husband assailant Carter are married and have a young son. (951)765-2422. Carlos started the orga- So Cal Mini Horse Sanctuary nization with the intent Carlos and Jeanne Candelario, dubbed “Mother and Father of Horses” are all smiles at the Rose Parade. SPACEX FALCON 9 of rescuing as many mini spacecraft into low orbit—a the ocean upon impact. It is horses as they could, be- FROM PAGE A1 free-flying vessel used by still unclear why they changed cause so many often are left a replacement. They hap- “Often, I had people out SpaceX to deliver cargo and procedures. neglected, abandoned, and pened upon So Cal Mini there practicing,” Can- that would have been [a mis- people to destinations in orbit. Elon Musk, founder of abused. But their young- Horse Sanctuary, and delario said, describing sile], then it wouldn’t still be Falcon 9 is a two-stage the aerospace manufacturer est son, who has special Candelario and her horses her preparation routine.