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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2015
Bail set at $5 million for man who killed grandmother, house-sitter 24-year-old has history of violence toward family, girlfriend and animals BY DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
‘Return’ of the classics Hot rods, rat rods and roadsters of all shapes, sizes and ages drew hundreds of people to the downtown core on Sunday for the annual Return to Renton Car Show. This year, more than 325 cars were entered in the competition. For more photos from the event, turn to page 10. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter
New music classes still in need of instruments BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
Two Renton High School music teachers hope to engage students musically through new guitar and keyboard classes at the school this fall. They are set to begin in September but still in need of more instruments to help support a music program
that has been chronically underfunded district-wide. In the past teachers have taught students keyboard using papers on their desks for them to “play.” “We’ve been functioning on nothing to the point where I’ve been teaching - I’m going to cry - I’ve been teaching on garbage cans…” said Lizabeth Diaz, breaking down. Diaz is the choir and keyboard director at Renton High School and in charge of the new keyboard class. Teaching students beats on buckets is a typical thing to do, she said, in elementary school, but the use
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of garbage cans in high school is a desperate measure. The class is in need of eight to 10 more keyboards and accessories but will make do with the old and often out-of-tune pianos that they currently have until they get more. Darlene Rose is the school’s orchestra director and chair of the Creative and Performing Arts Department. She’s in need of 32 full-sized guitars, steel or classical nylon-stringed, for the school’s first guitar class. Renton High School received a grant [ more INSTRUMENTS page 9 ]
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Zachary Damien Craven, who had previously threatened to slit his grandmother’s throat, shot her to death July 7 in Skyway and just hours later, killed a woman in Renton who was house-sitting for his former girlfriend’s family, charge King County prosecutors. Craven, 24, was charged July 10 with two counts of first-degree murder. He’s being held in the King County Jail in Seattle on $5 million bail, which was originally set at $2.1 million. Both of the victims were killed by a single gunshot to the head, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Craven was also charged with seconddegree assault; prosecutors charge that Craven hit his grandfather in the head July 1 in Kent with a small revolver after he refused to give him his gun. Craven’s last known address is his grandfather’s residence in Kent. Craven’s arraignment is 8:30 a.m. July 23 in courtroom 1201 of the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle. Craven has a history of violence toward his family, girlfriend and animals, prosecutors write in charging documents. He was convicted of second-degree animal cruelty after he stabbed his grandmother’s cat to death. He failed to comply with court orders after his conviction for threatening to kill his grandmother, assaulting her and taking her debit card. On June 26 – two days after his 24th birthday – he was convicted again of threatening to kill his grandmother and [ more MURDERS page 4 ]