The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, September 2, 2020

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Jailhouse letter slams brakes on murder proceedings BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — A potentially exculpatory letter has derailed next week’s scheduled trial for the two remaining suspects in the disappearances and presumed deaths of two Yolo County teens. Now, a Yolo Superior Court judge must determine whether

the letter’s for real. One victim’s mother, meanwhile, says she has her doubts. Chandale Shannon Jr., 23, and Jesus Campos, 20, stand accused of helping to carry out the alleged abductions and murders of Enrique Rios, 16, and Elijah Moore, 17, friends and classmates who both

vanished in the fall of 2016. Another man, David Froste, reportedly ordered the killings after Moore robbed him of $300 worth of marijuana on the night of Oct. 17, 2016, while in Campos’ and Shannon’s presence. Authorities say the trio then picked up Rios from his Esparto home and that Froste fatally shot him when

he refused to lure Moore back to the men. Moore disappeared several weeks later after cashing a work check in downtown Woodland and, like Rios, was said to be slain in rural Knights Landing. Neither teen’s body has ever been found.

sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His brother Jonathan Froste, who took part in Moore’s slaying, cut a plea deal in which he admitted to a lesser count of second-degree murder in exchange for his testimony implicating the others.

David Froste was convicted of both murders in 2018 and

SEE LETTER, PAGE A4

Yolo likely to stay purple for weeks BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County will likely remain in the state’s “purple” Tier 1, indicative of widespread COVID-19 infection, for a minimum of five weeks, the county’s interim health officer told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. “We don’t have any indication that we’re ready to move into the next tier,” said Dr. Larissa May, who noted the county’s daily new case rate of 7.3 per 100,000 residents exceeds the metric of seven or less required to move into the red Tier 2. Indeed, in just the last three days, the county reported 104 new cases of the coronavirus and has averaged over 26 new cases per day for the last week. Under the state’s new guidance, counties must remain in a tier for three weeks before moving to a lower tier but must also meet the criteria of the lower tier for two weeks. Yolo County is currently meeting the other metric for moving into the red tier — a test positivity rate below 8 percent. Moving into Tier 2

would allow a number of businesses in Yolo County to reopen indoor activities and services, including gyms, libraries, nail salons, movie theaters and places of worship, albeit with restrictions on the number of people allowed in at a time. Restaurants could also resume indoor dining with a maximum capacity of 25 percent or 100 people, whichever is fewer. Once the county is out of Tier 1 for two weeks, schools would be eligible to reopen for in-person classroom instruction, but that, in turn, could limit the county’s ability to move into Tier 3 where additional activities are allowed. “We don’t know what’s going to happen with the reopening of schools,” May told county supervisors. “I just saw that the American Academy of Pediatrics has been keeping tabs over the summer as children have been getting back together and now the rate nationwide of cases in children and adolescents is actually rising more than in the general public, so there’s a lot

SEE PURPLE, PAGE A4

Davis native Kathy Hu, below, is the CEO of Pediafeed, which hopes to secure a patent on its award-winning feeding-tube design in the coming months. COURTESY IMAGES

Science goes ahead Davisite furthers research on award-winning prototype BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer

100,000 newborns in the United States.

It’s about as niche a device as you can get: A pediatric feeding tube designed for neonates and infants with gastrointestinal issues. But that hasn’t stopped Davis native Kathy Hu (now the CEO of startup Pediafeed) and a group of her former Johns Hopkins University classmates from trying to solve a problem that affects more than

Some 18 months ago, clinicians from Washington, D.C.’s Children’s National hospital approached Hu and a team of JHU biomedical engineering students — challenging them to create an improved gastronomy or G-tube for for infants — one that could help reduce the risk of tube displacement and its associated complications.

Guenther seeks District 3 City Council position BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Davis in the summer of 2020 has a very different feel from the Davis of Fall 2017, the last time Larry Guenther declared his candidacy for City Council. Some of the key issues he saw facing the city back then remain: an enduring budget deficit, a lack of affordable homes for families and the need to address the climate crisis. But now those issues are compounded by the new crisis of COVID-19, as well as community frustration over policing and public safety.

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In declaring his candidacy for District 3 — where he faces incumbent Lucas Frerichs — Guenther noted “the world seems turned upside-down right now.” And that, he said, “is precisely when we need to stop doing the status quo. “We really need to stop doing business as usual because business as usual, by definition, got us where we are.” That business as usual, Guenther said, includes a decision-making process used by the current council that fails to leverage the expertise and knowledge in the community. The result, he said, is a

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the coming months. “Many of the tubes currently out there are designed for adults and don’t always meet the needs of infants,” explains Hu, a 2016 Davis High graduate. “Some use a balloon to maintain placement in the stomach. But those tend to pop a lot.”

SEE SCIENCE, PAGE A3

Visiting researcher to get out on bail BY CALEB HAMPTON

being exposed to the risk of coronavirus infection. “The problem addressed by the Juan Tang, 37, a Chinese judge was how could the governnational who was recently a visitment reasonably keep someone ing cancer researcher at UC — charged but not proven guilty Davis, will be released on bail, a — confined in jail pending a trial federal judge ruled on Friday. almost two years later when the Tang was charged last month by TANG punishment, even if there was a a federal grand jury in SacraStill under conviction, would likely be six mento with visa fraud and with scrutiny months or less and even at its lying to the FBI about the nature worst little more than a year?” of her connections to the Chinese milisaid Malcolm Segal, a lawyer on Tang’s tary. defense team. Booked into the Sacramento County U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall NewMain Jail on July 24, Tang was initially man said he was willing to release Tang deemed a flight risk due to her lack of connections in the U.S. Last week, Tang’s into the custody of the Chinese émigré, lawyers returned to court after a Chinese an attorney who was identified in court as émigré offered to put up $750,000 in Mr. C. equity in his home as Tang’s bond, even “You’re getting a huge break here,” though he does not know her. Newman told Tang during a Zoom video Tang’s lawyers also argued that, conference in Sacramento federal court, because of trial delays caused by COVID- adding that he had never seen a case 19, Tang might well spend more time in where a total stranger offered to take a jail than she would likely be sentenced to SEE BAIL, PAGE A4 before her trial can be held, all while

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lack of GUENTHER innovation Looking for as well as change decisions he believes were wrong, including the approval of a lease-option deal with a solar company, BrightNight, that bypassed commission input; failure to set up publicly owned utilities for broadband and solid waste disposal; and approving a city budget without acting on what he called a clear public will to change the way policing is funded. “This is the time that we need to be innovative and

SEE GUENTHER, PAGE A3

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In the months following, Hu’s unit shadowed gastroenterologists, pediatric surgeons and interventional radiologists — eventually crafting a prototype that has since won a handful of awards and is now gaining traction nationally. Along the way, the group launched a small business venture in Pediafeed, which hopes to secure a patent on its award-winning work in

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