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Female slay suspect takes her life BY PAUL MARYNIAK
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May 5, 2021
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esidents of the San Riva Apartments on Liberty Lane in Ahwatukee watched apprehensively April 28 as Goodyear police swarmed into the complex’s parking lot. Even a SWAT armored vehicle was on hand, heightening their concern. But within about an hour of the show of force, all residents saw was a filled body bag being wheeled out to a county Medical Examiner’s vehicle. In one of the second-floor apartments, police found was the body of Lisa Couty, 37, whom they had planned to arrest for the shooting and death of her ex-boyfriend a day earlier. Goodyear police refused to answer any questions about the murder-suicide. They issued a news release saying that police had arrived at the residence of Todd
Vermillion, 41, shortly after midnight April 27. The release said family members had asked police to make a welfare check at Vermillion’s home in the 8800 block of South 165th Avenue in Goodyear. Officers found his body with a fatal gunshot wound. “Due to the suspicious circumstances, this quickly turned into a homicide investigation,” the release said, saying, “Couty be- A medical examiner’s staffer could be seen wheeling Lisa Couty’s body at the San Riva Apartments in Ahwatukee on April 28. (Special came the prime suspect.” to West Valley View) Police did not say why she had quickly become the prime suspect she had been dead long before they got in the slaying or if they had found any mo- there. tive. Goodyear police would only say the Nor have they said whether Couty took her life with her gun as they arrived or if Suspect...continued on page 2
Yee gives tips on financially preparing for college BY LAUREN SERRATO
West Valley View Staff Writer
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ith a passion for helping her community, Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee is promoting the Arizona Education Savings Plan in hopes of helping families financially prepare for their children’s academic future. AZ 529 is Arizona’s Education Savings Plan that allows parents to create savings
over time that can be used for their child’s college, vocational and workforce training, apprenticeships or private K-12 education. Additionally, the funds can be used toward tuition, books, computers, and room and board. The Arizona state treasurer’s office is the state agency that administers the program. Yee said since her team took over the program in October of last year, she has
been working to expand its reach and talk to families who have never gone to college, whose focus has never been on saving early. “It’s amazing how you can start saving early,” Yee said. “There are so many options that you can do. But what we have heard from just our new outreach is how
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