OPINION SPARKS Federally funded gun study misfires YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1910 TribuneSERVING SPARKS SINCE 1910 Page 8 Volume 109, Number 44 Wednesday, November 1, 2017 $1.00 SPORTS PLAYOFF BOUND Cougs can’t contain Huskies in battle for first Page 6 Wolf Pack scores 100 in exhibition Photo courtesy of Donald Abbott win at home The Sparks High School football team, coaches and cheerleaders celebrate after reaching the postseason for the first Page 7 time in nine years last Thursday following a thrilling 36-35 win over Wooster at home. The Railroaders will face Chur- chill County on Friday at 7 p.m. in Fallon. Story and photos on page 5. INSIDE Weather...............................2 cOmmuNITy State Briefs..........................2 Nevada History..................3 Opinion..............................8 Astrology .........................11 Red Hawk to host holiday Advice...............................12 Classified Ads..................13 shopping event next week Legals................................14 By Kayla Anderson crafted gifts to people who Sparks Tribune want to get a jumpstart on their holiday shopping. On Nov. 11-12, the 2nd Last year, hundreds of Follow us on Annual Handmade for the people showed up for the Twitter: Holidays at Red Hawk Golf event and many shoppers @SparksTribune and Resort located at 6600 expressed that they wished North Wingfield Parkway the show extended through in Sparks will be bigger and Sunday. Therefore, this year Courtesy photo better than ever. Over 40 Handmade for the Holidays The 2nd annual Handmade for the Holidays event is set local vendors will be onsite for Nov. 11-12 at Red Hawk Golf and Resort in Sparks. selling all sorts of hand- > See EVENT, Page 3 SPARKS Get the digital edition. SEE MORE sparkstrib.com Tribune News | Sports | Trending Now Your Community Newspaper Since 1910 ONLINE! 2 Nov. 1, 2017 yOuR SEvEN-Day fOREcast WEDNESDAY THuRSDAY fRIDAY SaTuRDAY SuNDAY mONDAY Tuesday 71/41 64/43 58/43 53/36 54/31 52/26 54/26 Mostly sunny Periods of clouds Cooler with a bit Cold with periods Rather cloudy, a Partly sunny and Increasing and sun of rain of rain bit of rain cold cloudiness NEvaDa news bRIEfS Associated Press community in Riverside County, Cal- district attorney says prehend her suffered minor injuries deadLy poLice shooting was ifornia, and burst into flames on Oct. justified to his leg when she backed into him. 16. She also crashed into an SUV. She Lawyers to inspect, diagram At the music festival, Dennis RENO — A district attorney in Ne- was treated at a local hospital for Las Vegas shooting site Carver jumped on top of his wife to vada says the deadly police shooting minor injuries and booked on sus- LAS VEGAS — A judge will allow shield her from bullets. They man- that occurred after a high-speed pur- picion of battery and assault with a lawyers for a California woman who aged to run away from the shooting suit in north Reno last year was jus- deadly weapon on a police officer, was critically wounded in the mass and were not injured. tified. obstructing and resisting arrest and shooting at a Las Vegas country mu- Brooke Carver, the couple’s In a statement release Wednesday, suspicion of DUI. sic festival to inspect and photograph 20-year-old daughter, says her par- Washoe County District Attorney It’s not clear if she has a lawyer. the concert site. ents had grown deeper in love in the Chris Hicks says deputies and Ne- Her initial court appearance is pend- The grounds have been closed for weeks after the shooting. vada Highway Patrol troopers “faced ing. law enforcement investigations since The Carvers had been together for imminent danger of death or serious the Oct. 1 shooting in which a gun- 22 years. bodily harm on multiple occasions,” neVada schooL truancy man killed 58 people and wounded leaving them no choice but to shoot officer accused of choking student hundreds of others. Victim in fataL sparks poLice 29-year-old Kyle Zimbelman in Au- The defendants in the lawsuit in- shooting was sparks man gust 2016. LAS VEGAS — A veteran Las clude MGM Resorts International, SPARKS — The man shot and Authorities say Zimbelman was Vegas-area truancy officer has the concert promoter and others. killed by Sparks police over the week- wanted on a felony warrant, and been arrested and suspended after A judge signed off on agreement in end has been identified as 43-year-old he was driving the truck that po- being accused of illegally entering court Monday that will allow attor- Johnny Bonta of Sparks. lice attempted to pull over. Police a home and choking a 16-year-old neys to photograph and diagram the Washoe County sheriff’s deputies vehicles eventually pinned the student. scene Tuesday. handling the investigation of the of- truck, and officers attempted to ap- Clark County School District police Concert vendors who left things ficer-involved shooting released his prehend him. say 56-year-old Scott Weissinger was such as food trucks and sound equip- name on Tuesday. Authorities say Zimbelman then arrested Wednesday on felony bat- ment may be able to retrieve those The sheriff’s office says Sparks drove the truck into a deputy and of- tery and burglary, and misdemeanor items as soon as Wednesday. police responded to a disturbance at ficers opened fire. Zimbelman then child abuse charges. A judge last week ordered the ca- an apartment building on the edge shot at police until he ran out of bul- A message left Friday at a tele- sino-hotel where gunman Stephen of Reno at about 4 a.m. Sunday and lets and was struck. phone number associated with Paddock fired on the crowd to pre- were able to safely remove a mother Weissinger was not immediately re- serve surveillance video and other and a teenager daughter from the res- reno officer hurt, woman turned. records in the case. idence. arrested in high-speed Court and jail records showed that chase Investigators say Bonta then ex- Weissinger was no longer jailed, and husband, wife who surViVed ited the front of the apartment with RENO — A 21-year-old woman did not immediately reflect his court Las Vegas shooting die in a shotgun. They say he refused re- is accused of backing into a Reno date or if he has a lawyer. crash peated commands to put the weapon police officer and trying to hit two School police Capt. Ken Young says LAS VEGAS — A husband and down and ultimately was shot by police cruisers and a motorcycle in a video news release that the in- wife from California who survived three officers. cop during a high-speed chase that cident happened while Weissinger the mass shooting at a Las Vegas The officers tried unsuccessfully to ended in her arrest on multiple was at the male student’s residence country music festival died several revive him and medical responders charges. following up on reports that the teen weeks after the Oct. 1 massacre in an declared him dead at the scene. Police say Lanayah Happy fled missed school. auto crash. The investigation is continuing. when an officer heard a disturbance Young says the student was not se- The Las Vegas Review-Jour- Anyone with information should at a south Reno apartment complex riously injured. nal reports that Dennis and Lor- call the sheriff’s office (775-328- coming from a car with the wrong li- Weissinger has worked for the raine Carver died after their vehicle 3320) or Secret Witness (775-322- cense plates at 2 p.m. Monday. school district since 1991, and has crashed into a metal gate outside their 4900). The first officer who tried to ap- been suspended without pay. 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Nov. 1, 2017 3 Handmade for the Sparks artists to be featured Event Holidays will be open continued from Page 1 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Artisan Show and Sale on Saturday, Nov. will be two days long and 11 and 10 a.m. to 3 Three Sparks artists will be among thirty scarves, jewelry, wire baskets, black and more vendors are added to artists from Northern Nevada featured at white and color photography, art dolls, fused the lineup. Plus, David’s Bar p.m. on Sunday, Nov. the 23th annual Reno Artisan Show and Sale glass, textiles, rugs, mixed media, wood turn- and Grill will be selling food 12. admission and Nov. 3 and 4 at the Unitarian Universalist Fel- ing, paper products, candles, inlaid wooden and drinks. parking is free. lowship. Admission is free and 20 pieces of boxes, cards, ceramics, and collages. Organizer and Spanish original art will be given away. “The range of prices makes the show a very Springs resident Megan Gisi “Every year we invite some of the best affordable place for holiday shopping,” says has been creating crocheted again…jewelry, pottery, glass artists in Northern Nevada to exhibit at our Sulahria.