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Music, dancing and laughter at Ananda Mela festival The fifth annual Ananda Mela Joyful Festival of India took place last weekend at Redmond City Hall. The all-ages event was organized by the Sammamish-based Vedic Cultural Center (VCC) and featured musical acts from around the world. There were also dance and cooking contests and more. Top, En Karma from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, performs. Right, instructors guide an attendee through a Bhangra dance. Courtesy photos
Local athlete has a hand in BounceBack’s mission to help teens recover from sports-related injuries SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Whether an athlete is brand new to their chosen sport or a 15-year veteran preparing for their third Olympics, one thing that could set them back — no matter the experience level — is an injury. Having to sit out for weeks, or even months, at a time is not easy, but one Redmond teen is part of
a project focused student athletes on preventing and bounce back from treating sports injuries better. injuries in student “Hopefully athletes. we can make it Sixteen-year-old easier for people Megan Phillips has to get back to their been interning for sport,” Phillips Megan Phillips BounceBack, an said. online database She is one of collecting information three interns — the other about sports-related injutwo are based in Califorries, since the beginning nia — on the project and of June. The goal of the together, they created project, she said, is to help the BounceBack website,
created fliers and business cards, came up with survey questions to ask student athletes and more. The questions are focused on athletes’ sports, their injuries, how they were injured, how long they were out and the type of treatment they received while they were injured. Phillips said they hope to find patterns in the data they collect and relay that [ more INJURIES page 6 ]
On July 25, Redmond resident Daniel Haggart was charged with first-degree murder after a fight on July 18 ultimately ended in the death of a 17-year-old Redmond girl. Cara Neil died July 23 from stab wounds to the chest. At 10:50 p.m. on July 18, Redmond police responded to reports of a fight outside of SoulFood Books at 15748 Redmond Way. Officers and fire personnel arrived, provided first aid to Neil and arrested 25-year-old Haggart. According to a Redmond Police Department (RPD) press release, the suspect and victim were acquaintances. King County charging documents state that Haggart allegedly, “with premeditated intent to cause the death of another person, did cause the death of Cara Neil.” He was also accused of allegedly “being armed with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a knife.”
SCENE AT THE TIME
Charging papers state that when the responding RPD arrived on the scene, an officer saw Neil lying on the ground in the breezeway between SoulFood Books and Snapdoodle Toys, which is next door to the cafe. The papers go on to state that the officer informed dispatch that Neil “had possibly multiple stab
wounds, was unresponsive and had vomited.” When they discovered a stab wound to Neil’s chest, she was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. There were about four people around Neil trying to tend to her injuries when the officer arrived, documents state. One of those individuals was Haggart, who was not wearing a shirt. The responding officer spoke to witnesses on the scene, some of whom claimed to have seen a shirtless male involved in an argument. Others reported that the shirtless male “had been seen with a knife earlier in the evening. Another witness reported seeing Haggart and Neil pressed against each other, almost in an embrace.”
THREATENING TEXTS
Prior to the assault, Haggart had contacted his girlfriend, Jennifer Fox, who reported receiving threatening text messages, according to charging documents. Fox had saved the messages and shared them with police. The first text, which came in at 10:32 p.m., stated “if u don’t call me I’m stabbing the first person I see.” This was followed by a text at 10:35 p.m. stating, “cause I’m going to kill someone. Since I can’t live without u.” Another three minutes pass, followed by two more texts, one minute apart: “u [ more STABBING page 6 ]
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