Marysville Globe, July 03, 2013

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SPORTS: Powder Puff supports youth football. Page 8

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Community supports Relay For Life BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

Pinewood reading program kicks off with ‘Reading with Royalty.’ Page 15

SEE RELAY, PAGE 2

Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo

Cancer survivors kick off the 2013 Marysville Tulalip/Relay For Life with the opening lap at Asbery Field on June 29.

Marysville man arrested in connection with Lake Stevens shooting

SPORTS: Local athletes compete in All-State football. Page 8

INDEX CLASSIFIED ADS 13-14 7 LEGAL NOTICES 4 OPINION 12 OBITUARY 8-9 SPORTS 11 WORSHIP

Vol. 120, No. 23

BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com

Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo

Acting Sheriff Tom Davis joins Shari Ireton, director of communications for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, in reiterating that certain details in the June 1 drive-by shooting case cannot yet be divulged, even after the arrest of a suspect on June 28.

EVERETT — Representatives for the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office held a press conference at the Snohomish County Courthouse on Monday, July 1, to address the recent arrest of a suspect in the June 1 drive-by shooting of a Seattle teenager in Lake Stevens. Marysville’s Erick N. Walker, 26, was arrested on Friday, June 28,

in connection with the death of 15-year-old Molly Conley, after a month-long investigation involving more than a dozen detectives, officers and forensic scientists from four law enforcement agencies was able to establish probable cause. Shari Ireton, director of communications for the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office, reported that Walker was booked into the SEE SUSPECT, PAGE 10

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MARYSVILLE — The 2013 Marysville Tulalip/Relay For Life benefitted from warm weather and clear, sunny skies on June 29-30 to raise $119,037.35 from its 50 teams and 416 participants, who generated roughly $50,000 toward that total in the past month alone. Kristin Banfield, event chair for this year’s Marysville/Tulalip Relay, welcomed those teams of walkers to Asbery Field on Saturday, June 29, by noting how the overnight Relay is meant to reflect a day in the life of someone who is facing cancer, with the darkening of night eventually giving way to the dawn of a new day, and added that this year’s Relay marked a pleasant change of pace from the cold and rain that’s greeted local walkers and volunteers in previous years. “I’m here not just as the Relay event chair, but also as a cancer survivor,” said Banfield, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, and while she’s since made a recovery, she’s described herself as a direct beneficiary of the money raised by Relays not just in


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