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Police and medical vehicles converge at the base of the Eighth Street bridge over Valley Creek in Port Angeles.
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Black Ball Ferry Line employee Rochelle Roberts of Victoria directs Saturday’s passengers off the MV Coho ferry from Victoria to the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival tent a block east in Port Angeles.
Hundreds from Canada join in for PA festival BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
Woman dies in plummet from bridge Apparently a suicide, say PA authorities PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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PORT ANGELES — There still will be plenty of crab for all who want it today, even though more than 1,400 from Victoria came across the Strait of Juan de Fuca for the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival. The line for crab meals snaked out of the festival’s main tent in the Red Lion Hotel parking lot at noon Saturday, just after the MV Coho ferry deposited its sold-out load of about 970 passengers from Canada. Disembarking passengers followed direction signs along the Port Angeles waterfront.
Hundreds of Canadian passengers wait to disembark the MV Coho as it arrives in Port Angeles midday TURN TO CRAB/A9 Saturday.
Details surface on slaying PA man returned to Clallam to face murder charge BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Gary Carl Borneman Jr. was in custody in the Clallam County jail Saturday, charged with first-degree murder
in the shooting death of Gerald David “Jerry” Howell. Borneman, 39, of Port Angeles was transferred Saturday from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he had undergone surgery for hand injuries suffered Tuesday night. Charges were filed Thursday. No bond had been set as of Saturday. An initial court date will be set soon, according to Prosecuting Attorney Will Payne on Friday.
Police said in an arrest report filed in court records that they found Borneman Jr. outside the house at 130 W. 11th St. at 7:11 p.m. Tuesday holding a gun with bloody hands. They followed a trail of blood through a kicked-in back door to the laundry room, where they found Howell face-down, dead of a gunshot wound to the head, with a shotgun between his legs. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — A 21-yearold Port Angeles woman fell to her death from the eastern Eighth Street bridge Saturday morning, city police said. Police were withholding the women’s name Saturday afternoon because some members of her family had not yet been notified, Police Sgt. Glen Roggenbuck said. A bicyclist reported the fall at 10:26 a.m. The women plunged off the towering bridge that spans a wide ravine into a remote area off Valley Street. Roggenbuck said the fall appears to have been a deliberate act. “There was a witness,” he said.
“It does not appear to be an accident, that’s for sure.” Police found no suicide note on the bridge or the women’s body. The bridge over Valley Creek is 98 feet tall at its highest point. In July 2012, a 20-year-old Port Angeles woman jumped to her death from the western Eighth Street bridge into the Tumwater Creek ravine. A 19-year-old Port Angeles man jumped to his death from the eastern bridge in April 2009.
Twin bridges 5 years old The twin bridges opened in February 2009, replacing a pair of trestle-like spans that were built in 1936 to carry a state highway that since has been turned over to the city. “Over the course of the last few years, we’ve actually talked a few people off the bridge,” Roggenbuck said. Police have also intercepted people who have made suicidal threats about the bridge before they arrived at either of the spans, Roggenbuck added.
Woman sounds terrified on 9-1-1 dispatch recording BY LEAH LEACH
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PORT ANGELES — Terrified and hysterical, Rebecca Messinger crouches in the bushes in the dark behind the house where her boyfriend lies shot to death. Her only lifeline is the calm voice of the emergency dis-
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