09.19.18

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09.19.2018 Vol. 219 No. 022

WEDNESDAY Collin Richards, 22, has a history of violent crimes. Here’s what we know about his past.

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Barquín Arozamena’s hometown honors her life BY WILLA.COLVILLE @iowastatedaily.com The impact of Celia Barquín Arozamena has spanned far beyond the Iowa State community. Tuesday, citizens of Puente San Miguel, Spain — Barquín Arozamena’s hometown — gathered together to grieve. City officials also declared three days of mourning in the municipality of Reocín, which Puente San Miguel falls under, at a town hall meeting.

Before the meeting began, townspeople gathered outside of town hall to celebrate the life of Barquín Arozamena. Students of Colegio De Educación Infantil Y Primaria Cantabria, where Barquín Arozamena attended secondary school, carried posters in her remembrance during the event. Students as well as teachers who taught Barquín Arozamena

remembered her as “cheerful,”“hardworking” and “responsible” with great tenacity, according to HoyTorrelavega, a Spanish news source. The town hall meeting started after this memorial. During the meeting mayor of Reocín, Pablo Diestro, read an official announcement. “On behalf of the corporation and of all the neighbors of the municipality I want to express our great pain for the tragic loss of Celia Barquín Arozamena,” Diestro said. “We send all our love and support to her family and friends in these

Pollard: ‘Losing one of our student-athletes is like losing a child’

CELIA BARQUIN AROZAMENA

Paying respect Cyclones to honor Celia Barquín Arozamena at Saturday football game, attendees encouraged to wear yellow

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com TATE WEAVER/ ISD Pollard answers questions in relation to the death of Barquin Arozamena.

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com The atmosphere in the Pete Taylor Media Room in Hilton Coliseum was as somber as the weather outside the arena. Situations like this, in the words of Iowa State Athletic Director Jamie Pollard, are something with “no manual that you can turn to.” Pollard said Celia Barquín Arozamena was supposed to be honored during the Akron game on Saturday, celebrating her selection as the Cyclones’ Female Athlete of the Year. Originally, she “broke down in tears,” when told about the honor, according to Pollard, who added that she “was in awe that Iowa State would think to recognize her in front of 60,000 people at a football game.” Pollard also provided a timeline from the athletics side, while also addressing how the university would honor Barquín Arozamena this weekend at the Cyclones’ football game against Akron. “I don’t think you can put a timeline on how long it’ll take for this community, this institution and this athletic program to ever overcome this.” Multiple times, Pollard had to

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very hard moments.” Diestro also recalled meeting with Barquín Arozamena after she won the European Ladies’ Amateur Golf Championship in July. “Celia was a hardworking, responsible young woman. She always had a smile,” Diestro said. The town is shocked by the news of Barquín Arozamena’s death and Diestro has personally made himself available to her family to “provide support and know that they have us for everything we can help them.”

Celia Barquín Arozamena was going to be honored at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday for being named the Cyclones’ Female Athlete of the Year. Now, she’ll be memorialized in Jack Trice Stadium before kickoff to honor a life cut short. Additionally, the Iowa State football team has wasted no time in honoring the life of the former golfer, who was found dead at Coldwater Golf Links on Monday at the age of 22. Barquín Arozamena, who was one of the most accomplished golfers in Iowa State history, had exhausted her collegiate eligibility

and was attempting to make the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour while finishing her degree at the university. The Cyclones posted a Tweet on Tuesday stating that the team would wear a decal with Barquin Arozamena’s initials on Saturday, when the Cyclones take the field against Akron at 11 a.m. Matt Campbell said on Tuesday that the decision to wear the decal was made to show support for the Iowa State Athletics family and Barquín Arozamena’s family. “I think it’s the minimum we can do to pay our respect,” Campbell said. There is also a movement among Iowa State students on social media to wear yellow on

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Photo courtesy of Iowa State Athletics Celia Barquín Arozamena will be honored at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday.

Police: ‘It’s troubling for all of us that this happened’ BY K.RAMBO @iowastatedaily.com Ames police say a search of a wooded area near Coldwater Golf Links put their officers in contact with a man who indicated Collin Daniel Richards — the suspect charged with first-degree murder in the suspicious death of Celia Barquin Arozamena — told him something to the effect of Richards having “a desire to rape and murder a woman.” On Tuesday, Ames Police Cmdr. Geoff Huff provided an update to press at the Ames City Hall in which police say Richards assaulted Barquín Arozamena, resulting in her death, on Monday morning at Coldwater Golf Links. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to family and friends of Celia Barquín

Arozamena,” Huff said. Huff said Richards was living in a wooded area near the golf course and that since then the area has been thoroughly searched. “It’s rare, obviously still very troubling that something like this would happen in broad daylight in a city that is as safe as Ames is,” Huff said. At this time, Huff said there was no evidence of a previously known connection between Richards and Barquín Arozamena. “The public always needs to be concerned,” Huff said. Richards was found with bloody clothes in his backpack and a bloody knife. He had a violent criminal history, previously pleading guilty to first-degree domestic abuse assault, first-degree harassment and third-degree attempted burglary. Richards is

CHRIS JORGENSEN/ IOWA STATE DAILY On Tuesday, Ames Police Cmdr. Geoff Huff provided an update to press at the Ames City Hall regarding the death investigation of an Iowa State student.

currently being held at Story County Jail on a $5 million cash bond. Ames police are still asking for

information about anything suspicious in the area of Coldwater Golf Links.


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