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[email protected] Raff murder trial begins WEEKEND UPDATE • Raff says shooting Arrest made was attempt to get into a federal court after fight in • Says victim’s boss too connected to get Willits park fair trial here The Daily Journal By KATIE MINTZ A Eureka man was arrested Saturday at a Willits park after allegedly trying to knife a The Daily Journal Willits man sitting in the park with friends. In an interview taped the day According to the Willits Police Department, Howard Eugene Raff was arrest- witnesses allege that John Dalkin, 35, walked into ed on suspicion of murder, he Snider Park at around 5 p.m., went up to a group told a Ukiah Police Department of people sitting together, singled out one of them detective he shot Virginia Larkin and then took out a knife and threatened the man once in the head because he with it. As Dalkin stabbed toward the other man, believed it was the only way to the man avoided him and reacted by hitting get a fair child support trial Dalkin in the head with a beer can. Police say because of Larkin’s ties to her witnesses told them that at some point Dalkin employer, attorney Hugh L.