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Guilty plea in Fas Gas shooting
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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Less than a year after Jaysen Arancon Reyes was airlifted to hospital, suffering gunshot wounds to his face and hands, one of the two men accused of the armed robbery of the West Park Fas Gas where Reyes was working has admitted guilt to charges in relation to the crime. The other man accused in the robbery is now out on bail. Reyes appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Monday, with the scars of the Sept. 11, 2013, incident visible. He is still recovering from the injuries he received during the robbery. Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 31, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to four charges before judge Darrel Riemer. Geary was scheduled for his preliminary inquiry, used to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial. However, he entered guilty pleas to charges of robbery, possessing a loaded prohibited weapon, manufacturing a prohibited weapon and aggravated assault. He maintained his not guilty plea to the charge of attempted murder. Reyes was shot in the hands and face with a sawed-off shotgun on the evening of Sept. 11 during an armed robbery. He had turned over the cash from his drawer when the shotgun was fired, severely injuring him. Geary’s counsel, Patty McNaughton, asked for a pre-sentence report prior to the sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for Sept. 29 in Red Deer provincial court. Geary turned himself in to Blackfalds RCMP two days after the shooting. Co-accused Eric Michael Ayotte, 29, was released on $2,000 no-cash bail. Ayotte was to face a preliminary inquiry on Monday. However, Crown prosecutor Ed Ring said one of his witnesses required a Tagalog interpreter and one hadn’t been requested. Ring requested an adjournment of the inquiry so they could get an interpreter.
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Robin Williams in character as disc-jockey Adrian Cronauer in director Barry Levinson’s 1987 comedy drama, ‘Good Morning Vietnam.’ Williams has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63.
Laughter falls silent ROBIN WILLIAMS DIES IN APPARENT SUICIDE AT 63 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay Area home Monday, according to the sheriff’s office in Marin County, north of San Francisco. The sheriff’s office said the preliminary investigation shows the cause of death to be a suicide due to asphyxia. The Marin County coroner’s office said Williams was last been seen alive at home at about 10 p.m. Sunday. An emergency call from his house in Tiburon was placed to the Sheriff’s Department shortly before noon Monday. “This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken,” said Williams’ wife, Susan Schneider. “On behalf of Robin’s family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is
remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin’s death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions.” Williams had been battling severe depression recently, said Mara Buxbaum, his press representative. Just last month, he announced he was returning to a 12-step treatment program he said he needed after 18 months of nonstop work. He had sought treatment in 2006 after a relapse following 20 years of sobriety. From his breakthrough in the late 1970s as the alien in the hit TV show Mork and Mindy, through his standup act and such films as Good Morning, Vietnam, the short, barrel-chested Williams ranted and shouted as if just sprung from solitary confinement. Loud, fast and manic, he parodied everyone from John Wayne to Keith Richards, impersonating a Russian immigrant as easily as a pack of Nazi attack dogs. He was a riot in drag in Mrs. Doubtfire, or as a cartoon genie in Aladdin. He won his Academy Award in a rare but equally intense dramatic role, as an empathetic therapist in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He was no less on fire in interviews.
During a 1989 chat with The Associated Press, he could barely stay seated in his hotel room, or even mention the film he was supposed to promote, as he free-associated about comedy and the cosmos. “There’s an Ice Age coming,” he said. “But the good news is there’ll be daiquiris for everyone and the Ice Capades will be everywhere. The lobster will keep for at least 100 years, that’s the good news. The Swanson dinners will last a whole millennium. The bad news is the house will basically be in Arkansas.” Following Williams on stage, Billy Crystal once observed, was like trying to top the Civil War. In a 1993 interview with the AP, Williams recalled an appearance early in his career on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Bob Hope was also there. “It was interesting,” Williams said. “He was supposed to go on before me and I was supposed to follow him, and I had to go on before him because he was late. I don’t think that made him happy. I don’t think he was angry, but I don’t think he was pleased.
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Solving fire riddles is a complicated process Talking to Ed van Delden on Mon- off, van Delden has looked again at the day morning starts out a little slow, but file on the Henner’s Pointe fire that reby the end of it I am reluctantly trying sulted in three homes being destroyed to get off the phone for another ap- on the morning of July 29. pointment. “That’s a big fire for LaThat’s sometimes the recombe. I think that’s a big ality in this business of jourfire for any department,” nalism, where to keep the says van Delden. copy flowing expeditiously The good news, if there we pick up the phone incan be such a thing in these stead of meeting interesting life-changing dramatic people one on one. Sigh. events, is that the three I expect I will meet van families affected have good Delden in person another insurance and support sysday, since he offered to take tems, says van Delden. me for a tour of present-day The fire was ruled achousing construction methcidental. It started near or ods as seen through his eyes in the garage of one home, MARY-ANN as fire chief of the City of cause yet to be determined, BARR Lacombe. then took out the homes But for now, the story is on either side. There was, about some of the issues thankfully, no injury to any around the biggest residenof the people who lived in tial fire in Lacombe in recent memory, those homes. as well as other fire matters. Just fresh back from a brief week Please see FIRE on Page A2
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City of Lacombe Fire Dept. fire chief Ed van Delden outside the three homes that were destroyed by fire in the city last week.
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