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SATURDAY,SEPT. 16, 2017 Inside: On this 75¢ date in 1962, the Curry County Sugar Beet Association announced a meeting to discuss acreage application requests from the Holly Sugar Co. — Page 3A Vol. 89 ◆ No. 145 SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com Shooting 911 calls released Staff photo: ❏ Tony Bullocks Audio is from callers On the web A 16-year-old inside, outside the building student is Hear the calls online: arrested at the Clovis-Carver Library. www.easternnewmexiconews.com following the BY THE STAFF OF THE NEWS Aug. 28 Hinchee. “It’s going to be OK, we have shooting that CLOVIS — The calls started to come in plenty of people coming for you, OK?” killed two, just before 4:13 p.m. on Aug. 28. In about Police and ambulances were en route as the calls continued with more details trick- injured four seven minutes, 911 dispatchers took nine reports of an active shooter at the Clovis- ling in: a person shot in the arm, a person at the shot by the circulation desk and a suspect Clovis-Carver Carver Public Library. Clovis police on Friday released the 911 with a handgun. Public calls from the violence that left two people “I have a friend that’s in there right now,” Library. dead, four injured and a 16-year-old high said a caller. “She’s inside the library.” Emergency school student in custody. A person at the public defender’s office dispatchers The audio includes many callers who reported having two eyewitnesses to the shooting. took nine appear out of breath, outside the building and seeking safety. Other calls came from “Keep them in there. Do not let them reports in leave,” a dispatcher said of those witnesses. about seven staff inside the library, taking cover in an office or closet. “We are super, super crazy in here. I will get minutes of an The first call reported at least two people somebody there. I need you to keep them active hit by a shooter wearing a black shirt, glass- there.” shooter at es and a black hat. Seconds later, Library The last call released by police came in the scene. Director Margaret Hinchee said she was just before 4:19 p.m. from a library employ- inside her office but she didn’t know more ee in a closet with an injured coworker. about what the shooter looked like or who “I’m at the library; I’m with one of my was hurt. coworkers that was shot. I just want to let “Stay there. Do not leave the building. We have help on the way,” a dispatcher told 911 on Page 5A NASA: Space Science Institute HOMECOMING QUEEN Saturn's rings cast a dramatic shadow separating the blues and greens of the planet's northern hemisphere from the creamy pastels coloring the southern hemisphere. This mosaic combines 6 images — 2 each of red, green and blue spectral filters — to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 30, 2008, at a distance of approximately 750,000 miles from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 30 degrees. Image scale is 42 miles per pixel. Staff photos: |Kevin Wilson Above: Destiny Spacecraft Cassini Coyazo has her hair adjusted by Sarah Kendall dies in Saturn’s sky after Coyazo was crowned Clovis ❏ It found six new Pacific time and stopped commu- High’s nicating with Earth one minute homecoming moons in its 13 years later, according to NASA’s careful- queen Friday night ly choreographed plan. Within at Leon Williams three more minutes, Cassini’s 12 orbiting the planet. Stadium. Kendall, scientific instruments were torn By Deborah Netburn apart. Then they melted. Then they in her capacity as LOS ANGELES TIMES vaporized. last year’s queen, helped crown Cassini, the NASA spacecraft An investigator to the end, the Coyazo. whose breakthrough discoveries spacecraft transmitted scientific about Saturn and its many moons data about Saturn’s atmosphere revolutionized the search for life and the planet’s interior structure Left: Coyazo’s beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday throughout its final descent. escorts, Lee morning in the skies above the Cassini’s last signal to Earth was Hutchison and ringed planet. It was one month received at the Jet Propulsion Jose Trujillo, Laboratory in La Cañada shy of its 20th anniversary in gesture in space. Flintridge shortly before 5 a.m. celebration after The explorer’s death was swift “We left the world informed, but and deliberate. 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Information: 575-769- Clovis tery against a household 19, bench warrant ■ Michael Hatch, 27, gym, 2600 North Main Street. 7828 ■ Lorrisa Garcia, 21, fail- member bond Information: 575-769-7828 ■ Roberta Jones, 58, fail- ure to pay fines ■ Joe Mirabal, 30, bond ■ Portales City Council — Thursday ure to appear on a misde- Released ■ ■ Gaby Rendon, 22, fail- ■ Clovis MainStreet Board meanor charge The following were Allen Pinner, 22, bond 6:30 p.m. in council chambers ure to pay fines ■ released from local jails at the Memorial Building. — 8:30 a.m. at 418 N. Main ■ Dominic Dominguez, Jorge Quiroga, 51, driv- 35, possession of a con- Wednesday-Thursday: * The Curry County Information: 575-356-6662 ext. Street. Information: 575-769- ing under the influence of trolled substance, possession Detention Center in Clovis 1012 7828 liquor, driving a vehicle at ■ of drug paraphernalia, con- Clovis* does not disclose the reasons ■ Roosevelt County ENM Water Utility night without lighted lamps, cealing identity Authority — 1 p.m. at the driving while license sus- ■ Amanda Nunez, 38 for release in its daily brief- Commission — 9 a.m. in com- Memorial Building, 200 E. pended or revoked ■ Manuel Duran, 23 ings. mission room at county court- ■ Seventh Street, Portales. ■ John Clark, 54, posses- Portales Adriana Garcia, 30 house. Information: 575-356- ■ ■ Christopher Padgett, 34 — Compiled by the Staff Information: 575-935-4262 sion of a controlled sub- Justin Brown, 34, no 5307 stance, possession of drug proof of insurance, failure to ■ Gaby Rendon, 22 of the News ■ Clovis City Commission ■ Curry County — 5:15 p.m. at north annex of Commission — 9 a.m. at com- Clovis-Carver Public Library. Community calendar mission room, 417 Gidding Information: 575-769-7828 Street, Clovis. Information: 575- Clovis p.m. Thursdays at Matt 25, 1200 N. General meeting. Information: Jerry International Defensive Pistol 763-6016 This calendar is a daily Thornton Street, third floor. Information: Bailey 575-693-2511. Facebook: Association — 12:30 p.m. third week- listing of area public meet- Clubs/organizations Joe Whitehurst 575-760-1379 Clovis Desert Cruzers. clubs.hem- end each month. Shooting in ings. To place an item on American Legion Unit 25 — 7 p.m. Clovis Masonic Lodge No. 40 — ming.com/desertcruzers. Muleshoe. Map: border-sport-shoot- Wednesday the calendar, call the news- ladies auxiliary meeting third 7:30 p.m. first and third Tuesday each Eastern New Mexico Amateur ers.org. Information: Joe Stanford 806- ■ Local Emergency Wednesday each month; 7 a.m.-11 a.m. room at 575-763-6991 or e- month at the lodge, 3100 Thornton Radio Club — 9 a.m. third Saturday 777-2217. 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