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on lockdown, gunfire exchanged who also died, a former resident

Gunman kills 3 at
Yountville vets home

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Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies and the FBI enter the shooting area Friday at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville. Dozens of heavily armed law enforcement officers from
across the region as well as the FBI swarmed the campus after a gunman stormed a building and took hostages. Three Pathway Home staffers and the shooter died.

By JULIE JOHNSON, Home, a private

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AND CHRISTI WARREN that helps trau- N
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A decorated Army veteran to civilian life.
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turned to the Veterans Home of heavily armed SONOMA NAPA
COUNTY COUNTY
California in Yountville, where law enforce- Napa
Albert
he had recently been kicked out ment officers 12
Wong
of a program for treatment of from across Sonoma
Gunman who
combat stress, and killed three the region as 3 miles
killed 3 women
mental health workers Friday, well as the THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
was a former
officials said. FBI swarmed
resident of The
He and the victims were the campus by
Pathway Home INSIDE Yountville’s Pathway
found dead about 8 hours after mid-morning,
in Yountville. Home has provided services,
he exchanged gunfire with a bracing for a
Napa County sheriff’s deputy, siege or prolonged hostage ne- support for returning vets / A4
officials said. gotiations, but that did not take
The attack, just after 10 a.m., place. Officers saw and heard ONLINE See video from the
touched off a daylong lockdown nothing from the gunman or the veterans home hostage situation
at the nation’s largest veterans three hostages over the course at pressdemocrat.com
home, which occupies a sprawl- of about eight hours until their ALVIN JORNADA / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
ing 600-acre state campus. The bodies were discovered about CHP Golden Gate Division assistant chief Chris Childs confirms that three
victims died in a building where Pathway Home staffers were found dead along with the gunman during a press
they worked with The Pathway TURN TO YOUNTVILLE » PAGE A2 conference Friday night at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville.

SR releases new district maps Doubts persist over

ELECTIONS » 28 possibilities
may give Latino voters more
Trump, Kim meeting
provide the public its first real oppor- proving thorny.
tunity to focus on what Santa Rosa’s The lawsuit claimed that Latino vot-
By MARK LANDLER
political landscape might look like for ers have been disenfranchised by ra-
NEW YORK TIMES

voice, shuffle council seats generations to come.

By KEVIN McCALLUM
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
The prospect of chopping Santa
Rosa up into seven electoral districts
has been a largely academic exercise
— until now.
The city this week released 28 de-
tailed maps of possible districts for
the public to consider in advance of a
key City Council meeting on Tuesday.
The maps and accompanying de-
mographic information about each
“The initial hearings in-
cially polarized voting patterns under
citywide elections. Switch-
WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald
Trump accepted an invitation to meet Kim Jong
volved very theoretical and ONLINE ing to districts would theo- Un of North Korea, the White House on Friday
abstract ideas about dis- See maps of the retically make it easier for began planning a high-level diplomatic encounter
tricts,” said Douglas John- electoral districts neighborhoods with large so risky and seemingly far-fetched that some of
son, president of National being proposed Latino populations to elect Trump’s aides believe it will never happen.
Demographics Corp., which for Santa Rosa at their preferred candidates The administration is already deliberating over
is working with the city. pressdemocrat.com to office. the logistics and location of the meeting, with a
“Now, it really gets real.” The shape of the districts senior State Department diplomat noting that the
The council decided, in the face of could have a huge impact not only on most obvious venue is the Peace House, a confer-
a lawsuit, to switch the city to district whether the effort to give Latinos a ence building in the Demilitarized Zone between
elections beginning in November. But larger voice in city elections succeeds, North and South Korea.
figuring out how to make the switch in but whether existing council members But several officials on Friday said that the
a way that is both legal and fair to resi-
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6 p.m., a CHP spokesman said.
“I feel sick to my stomach. I feel
sick to my heart,” said Rep. Mike
Thompson, D-St. Helena, who
knew one of the three women
killed Friday. “These were won-
derful people who were killed.
It’s just, it’s just really hard to
think about it, talk about it. It’s
another senseless killing.”
The victims were identified as
The Pathway Home’s executive
director, Christine Loeber, staff
therapist Jen Golick and Jenni-
fer Gonzales, a psychologist with
the San Francisco Department
of Veterans Affairs Healthcare
System.
At least one and possibly all
of the women knew the shoot-
er, Albert Wong, 36, who just
weeks ago was a resident under
treatment with the organiza-
tion, Napa County Sheriff’s Capt.
Steve Blower said.
Shortly after 10 a.m., Wong
strode into Building G, also
called Madison Hall, in the mid-
dle of the cam-
pus, carrying a
high-powered ri-
fle, ammunition
and at least two
other firearms.
He interrupted
a going-away
KENT PORTER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
party for a staff
member of The Law enforcement prepare to enter the shooting area Friday at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville.
Christine
Pathway Home,
Loeber
officials said.
“It was clear
that he was
there to do some
harm,” said an
organization
volunteer and
spokesman
Larry Kamer,
whose wife, De-
Jennifer vereaux Smith,
Gonzales was in the room
when Wong
came through
the door.
Many es-
caped including
Smith, but not
Loeber, Golick
and Gonzales.
Blower said
Jennifer the deputy who
KENT PORTER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Golick exchanged fire
with Wong A resident returns home Friday at
was nearby and arrived within the Veterans Home of California in
minutes of the first 911 call. He Yountville after the shooting.
encountered people fleeing the
scene.
“He didn’t stand around and
wait. He went in,” Blower said.
The deputy, whose name was
not released Friday, exchanged
gunfire with Wong in a brief ALVIN JORNADA / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
encounter inside Madison Hall,
Blower said. No words were ex- Candles illuminate a makeshift memorial in front of the entrance sign at the Veterans Home of California,
changed, according to the cap- where three people and the gunman died at The Pathway Home on Friday.
tain. Dispatch reports indicated came Wong’s legal guardians in us,” Dodd said. “It’s a tragedy Yountville Veterans Home …
up to 30 shots had been fired. San Francisco after the death of beyond anything we would have Our hearts go out to their fami-
Law enforcement officials dis- his father when he was a child. imagined. … Certainly this un- lies and loved ones and the entire ALVIN JORNADA / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
closed few other details about Sherr said Wong joined the derscores how big of a problem community of Yountville.” Congressman Mike Thompson
circumstances of the attack or Army and served in Afghani- we have with our veterans com- He ordered Capitol flags to be speaks to the media Friday night
the encounter with the deputy, stan, and he confided with her ing home from our conflicts in flown at half-staff. after confirmation that three
including how the exchange of about the difficult experiences he the Middle East.” The Yountville campus is open people and the gunman were dead
gunfire ended. Authorities did had while serving abroad. Thompson, the region’s veter- to the public and includes ball- after a standoff in Yountville.
not say how Wong died. “Like many of our young men an congressman, and a native of fields and a theater where local
No further contact was made (in the military), he did see some the Napa Valley, had just gotten students were on hand Friday facility and was exchanging text
with Wong or any of the victims, rough times,” Sherr said. off a plane from Washington, before being evacuated. messages with family while shel-
even as scores of law enforce- The Sherrs, who live on the D.C., en route to Sacramento for The Pathway Home leas- tering in place with a client.
ment officers, SWAT teams and San Francisco Peninsula, kept in a town hall on gun violence pre- es a residential facility on the Flores told family she could
hostage negotiators surrounded touch with Wong on birthdays, vention, when he heard about grounds and serves veterans hear people yelling “Get down!
the building, trying for hours to but Sherr said she wasn’t aware the shooting in Napa and rerout- from the wars in Afghanistan Get down!” She asked her broth-
reach the suspect by cellphone that Wong had joined a program ed to the veterans campus, about and Iraq who suffer problems er to ensure her 3-year-old son
but making no contact, said helping veterans recover from 20 miles south of his home. including post-traumatic stress was taken care of if she didn’t
Chris Childs, assistant chief of the traumatic experiences of “We need to do everything disorder, mild-traumatic brain make it out alive, he said.
the CHP’s Golden Gate division. war. we can to put a curb on gun vi- injury, depression and substance “I’m trying to be calm,” Juarez
Childs said they later found a “He’s always been soft-spoken, olence,” said Thompson, a Viet- abuse issues. It has helped 450 said.
cellphone in Wong’s rental car, honest and patriotic and loyal. nam war veteran. “We have to veterans over the past decade, Also at the entrance was Kay
parked on campus. It’s heartbreaking,” she said late make sure that my colleagues in according to its website. Klykun of Napa, who said she
Wong, who served in the in- Friday. Washington, who have to date re- Thompson called it a rushed to the campus after hear-
fantry during his three years of The Veterans Home of Califor- fused to do anything, get off the much-needed program that pro- ing about the shooting in news
active service, ending in 2013, nia houses about 850 residents on dime.” vides all manner of care and ser- reports. Her 91-year-old father
earned four medals, including the property, run by the Califor- Thompson called the event vices to veterans. lives in the assisted living medi-
an Afghanistan campaign medal nia Department of Veterans Af- “very, very sad,” particularly in “It’s just absolutely troubling cal unit in Eisenhower Hall. He
with two campaign stars, accord- fairs. Spokeswoman June Iljana light of the fact that it took place and upsetting that something has lived at the Veterans Home
ing to the Associated Press. said approximately 300 employ- at a facility whose mission it is to like this would happen here,” he for 10 years.
He was also awarded an Expert ees work at the state-run home, help troubled people. said. “I just want him to see a friend-
Marksmanship Badge with Rifle. the largest of its kind in the na- “There are three very dedi- Worried family members of ly face when all of this is over,”
He had been dismissed from tion. The facility traces its opera- cated individuals in a room with residents and staff gathered out- Klykun said.
The Pathway Home, according tions back about 135 years. him who get up every morning to side the entrance on Highway
to State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, Vito Imbasciani, secretary of help veterans,” he said before the 29 near Yountville Cross Road, Staff Writer Bill Swindell con-
whose district includes the veter- the state department, said in a deaths were announced. which was cordoned off by law tributed to this report. You can
ans campus. statement that he was “devastat- Gov. Jerry Brown issued a enforcement. reach Staff Writer Julie Johnson
News of Wong’s actions Friday ed” by the deaths. statement saying that he and Fernando Juarez, 36, of Napa at 707-521-5220 or julie.johnson@
devastated Cissy Sherr, who with “Three innocent souls gave his wife “are deeply saddened said his 22-year-old sister Va- pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter
her husband Matthew Sherr be- their all and are no longer with by the horrible violence at the nessa Flores is a caregiver at the @jjpressdem.

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Yountville Border Patrol defends arrest

facility serves
Video shows agents taking
mother of 3 off street in
front of distressed daughters
day afternoon. At least one person
can be heard crying uncontrollably
as agents forced Morales-Luna into a
man, said safety concerns prompted
agents to leave before letting Mo-
rales-Luna call her sister.

war veterans
Nonprofit Pathway
Home offers military
much-needed aid
By CHRISTI WARREN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
For a decade, The Path-
way Home has provided
just what its name sug-
gests: a guided trail back
to civilian life for hun-
dreds of veterans scarred
by combat-related stress.
The nonprofit program,
housed in offices leased at
the Veterans Home of Cal-
ifornia in Yountville, has
served more than 450 vet-
erans and their families
program, are on the board
of the program,” he said.
“Everybody just is incred-
ibly devoted. All they want
to do is help veterans and
that’s all they were trying
to do, and this is what hap-
pened.”
The Pathway Home
serves veterans from the
post-9/11 wars in Afghan-
istan and Iraq. Over the
past decade, it has evolved
from being a “brief, inten-
sive crisis program” to a
longer-term, holistic res-
idential model, according
to its website.
The Pathway Home
provides free educational,
professional and clinical
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATIONAL CITY — The U.S. Bor-
der Patrol said Friday that agents
acted appropriately during the vid-
eotaped arrest of a woman who was
pulled away from her anguished
daughters on a street in Southern
California.
The agency said 36-year-old Perla
Morales Luna recruited drivers to
take people who crossed the border
illegally to a house in National City,
near San Diego.
The agency put her in deporta-
tion proceedings and is not pursuing
smuggling charges.
Video of the woman being pulled
from her daughters on March 3 in the
San Diego suburb had drawn nearly
10 million views on Facebook by Fri-
vehicle and drove away.
The woman’s attorney, Andres
Moreno II, said agents left the daugh-
ters — 17, 15 and 12 — alone on the
street. The children, all U.S. citizens,
are now living with family in the San
Diego area.
The Border Patrol issued a more
detailed response as criticism
mounted. It said Morales-Luna de-
clined to turn herself in after being
contacted by phone in the smuggling
investigation, and that she tried to
flee in a nearby vehicle when agents
confronted her on the street.
Morales-Luna arranged for her
sister to take custody of her children
but not until after agents whisked
her away, according to the Border
Patrol.
The agency said officers faced “a
barrage of insults and confronta-
tional agitators” during the arrest.
Michael Scappechio, a spokes-
Morales-Luna is a single mother
who came to the U.S. from Mexico
when she was 15, Moreno said.
She was walking with her daugh-
ters to pay rent when agents stopped
her in what the Border Patrol said
was “the result of a targeted opera-
tion.”
“You can do your job without caus-
ing such a dramatic separation of
family members,” Moreno said. “It’s
overkill.”
Morales-Luna denies being part of
a smuggling organization and “has
no idea what they’re talking about,”
Moreno said before the Border Patrol
issued its more detailed statement.
Judith Castro-Rangel, who iden-
tifies herself as a special education
aide on Facebook, posted the video
on Thursday. She did not respond
to an email and a receptionist at her
school said she was not immediately
available.

Settlement resolves Pepe the Frog suit

since its inception in 2007.
Authorities said a man
recently kicked out of the
program returned to its
offices Friday and opened
fire, killing its executive
director, Christine Loe-
ber; Dr. Jen Golick, the
program’s therapist; and
Jennifer Gonzales, a psy-
chologist with the San
Francisco Department of
Veterans Affairs.
“These brave women
were accomplished pro-
fessionals who dedicated
their careers to serving
our nation’s veterans,
working closely with those
in the greatest need of at-
tention after deployments
in Iraq and Afghanistan,”
spokesman Larry Kamer
said in a statement.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thomp-
son, a Vietnam combat
veteran and co-chairman
of the Congressional Vet-
erans Caucus, said The
Pathway Home was an
excellent program that
provides much-needed
services to veterans.
“I know a lot of people
who are involved in the
program, a lot of people
who raise money for the
support to veterans seek-
ing to return to school or
pursue vocational train-
ing. It receives no direct
funding from the govern-
ment, although it part-
ners with the San Fran-
cisco VA Medical Center
to have a staff psycholo-
gist on site, according to
its website.
Mike Ergo, a licensed
clinical social worker and
director of Rohnert Park’s
North Bay Vets Center,
has recommended the or-
ganization’s services to
a host of veterans need-
ing support. The Marine
Corps veteran served
from 2001 to 2005, deploy-
ing to Iraq twice and sur-
viving the Second Battle
of Fallujah as an infantry-
man.
“When I came back, the
fact that people stepped
up and offered me hope
changed my life complete-
ly,” he said.
You can reach Staff
Writer Christi Warren at
707-521-5205 or christi.
warren@pressdemocrat.
com. On Twitter @Sea-
Warren.
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The cartoonist who cre-
ated Pepe the Frog has
resolved a copyright in-
fringement lawsuit that
accused a Missouri woman
of misusing the character
to sell hate-promoting oil
paintings.
The settlement is the
latest milestone in Califor-
nia-based cartoonist Matt
Furie’s legal campaign to
“I want to arrange a screening locally.”
KEVIN JORGESON, of bringing ‘Dawn Wall’ documentary to Santa Rosa
reclaim his creation from
far-right extremists who
hijacked Pepe, mixing im-
ages of Furie’s “chill frog-
dude” with Nazi symbols
and other hateful imagery.
On Monday, Furie sued
c o n s p i r a cy - p r o m o t i n g
website Infowars for sell-
ing a poster that included
an image of Pepe.
A court filing Friday
said Furie and Kansas City
resident Jessica Logsdon
agreed to the dismissal of
the federal lawsuit he filed
against her in October.
Each side is bearing their
own legal expenses.
Furie isn’t seeking any
money from Logsdon, who
agreed to stop using Pepe’s
image, according to a state-
ment released by one of
Furie’s attorneys. Logsdon
didn’t respond to inquiries
seeking comment.
The statement said Logs-
don admits she inadver-
tently and unintentionally
infringed on Furie’s copy-
rights. It adds that Logs-
don disavows any associa-
tion with the “alt-right,” a
white nationalist, anti-Se-
mitic fringe movement that
adopted Pepe as a mascot.
“As a political artist,
Logsdon documented the
2016 election. Logsdon
maintains that she creates
artwork that promotes uni-
ty and laughter, the exact
opposite of hate and vio-
lence,” the statement says.
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suspected to be a base of
sales operations, police
said, and took the two men
into custody, as well as a
third man, Ricardo Marti-
nez-Jimenez, 23.
During a search of
Rodales-Becceril’s car they
found about a pound of
heroin, and in the Cotati
house they found about a
quarter-pound more, Cre-
gan said.

Durst prosecutor wants to With the assistance of

East Palo

use victim’s words in court Alto po-

lice, San-
ta Rosa
ASSOCIATED PRESS lence what she knew about d e t e c -
his first wife’s mysterious tives also
LOS ANGELES — Pros- 1982 disappearance. searched
ecutors in the Los Ange- Defense lawyers have Ro d a l e s -
les murder case against argued the statements are Beccer-
eccentric New York real hearsay and inadmissible. il’s home
estate heir Robert Durst But Deputy District At- Juan Rodales- as well
want his victim’s words to torney John Lewin said JOHN BURGESS / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, 2015 Becceril as a rent-
help send him to prison. Durst forfeited the right to Santa Rosa native Kevin Jorgeson, left, and Tommy Caldwell in front of El Capitan in Yo- ed stor-
Prosecutors filed near- challenge the statements semite National Park, a day after they were the first to free climb the Dawn Wall route. age unit,
ly 400 pages of documents because he killed Berman w h e r e
Friday to argue that state-
ments Susan Berman
made to friends before she
to prevent her from being
a witness.
Berman had told
FILM But the most powerful record of
Jorgeson’s and Caldwell’s achievement
comes from the team of filmmakers who
t h e y
s e i z e d
about 4
was killed in 2000 should be friends that the real estate CONTINUED FROM A3 documented the event. pounds
allowed to help prove that tycoon admitted he killed “The Dawn Wall” had its internation- of heroin,
Durst knocked her off to si- Kathleen Durst. event even as it was happening. With al premiere late last year at the Inter- as well as
people from all over the world watching national Documentary Film Festival in Ricardo packag-
the climbers’ Twitter and Instagram ac- Amsterdam. The film is expected to go Martinez- ing, scales
counts during the ascent, the pair won into wider release later this year. Jimenez and other
the kind of global attention usually ac- “I want to arrange a screening local- ev i d e n c e
corded to outstanding Olympic athletes. ly,” Jorgeson said. It’s too soon to tell of drugs
9th Annual The duo’s triumphant arrival at the when that will be, he said. traf fick-
top of the Dawn Wall won them congrat- ing, au-
ulations from corporations, civic organi- You can reach Staff Writer Dan Taylor thorities
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OM zations, conservations groups and even at 707-521-5243 or dan.taylor@pressdem- said.
N President Barack Obama. ocrat.com. On Twitter@danarts. “ O n e
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from 19 schools, organizers said.
March 2-11, 2018 Dozens of kids were playing and hang-
ing outside the gym, as well, said campus
Athletic Director Manny DeLaO.
One of them observed an older teenag-
er or maybe a young adult with a bulge in
the side of his pants that concerned him,
LUNCH $10 / $15 and he said as much to a 10th-grade girl
who was staffing the concession stand
DINNER $19 / $29 / $39 outside the gym, DeLaO said. She told
the athletic director, and he asked her to
bring the kid to him.
After talking with him, he instructed
the 70 or so kids outside the gym to go in-
side, and he and other school and league
Presented by: officials locked the doors and instructed
everyone to stay put. League officials
also stood guard at the doors, while up
to eight police officers arrived and began
searching the grounds.
“Honestly, I was 99 percent sure it was
nothing,” DeLaO said Friday. “But with
the way things have been going national-
www.sonomacounty.com/restaurant-week ly, I wasn’t taking any chances.”
Lobos varsity basketball coach Mark
Thank you to our sponsors: Anderson, whose team benefits from
the fundraising tournament, got on the
microphone and informed those present
that a situation required them to sus-
pend play. He eventually advised them
that police were on the way because of
reports of a possible firearm on campus.
There was an effort to provide enough in-
formation to explain the situation with-
Jesus Juan
out causing panic, DeLaO said. seeing all
Camacho-
The 10-year-old was very nervous and across the
Cardenas
distraught, not quite knowing what he
had seen and seeing so many police come
nation
and here in Sonoma Coun-
out as a result, school officials said. ty is a dramatic rise in opi-
“It was just kind of like, ‘I think it oid-related use in heroin
looked, it might have been,’” said Straw- and prescription drugs,”
berry principal Josh Wilson, who saw Cregan said.
the boy interviewed. “I was very proud “I think we’re going to be
that he erred on the side of caution.” seeing more and more of
Some in the crowd were naturally these large seizures.”
unnerved, but overall those present de- Rodales-Becceril was
scribed what Riebli Elementary School arrested for suspected pos-
teacher and coach Andrea Farrell called session and transportation
a “pretty calm” scene. of heroin for sale and was
“It looked more like it does during the booked Wednesday into
brief half-time — people talking, kids the Sonoma County Jail,
shooting baskets, etc.,” Bennett Valley with bail of $500,000.
Union School District Superintendent Camacho-Cardenas was
Sue Field said via email on Friday. booked early Thursday
About a half-hour into the lockdown, morning for suspected
the game resumed, with Team Red from possession of narcotics for
Strawberry Elementary pulling out a sale with an enhancement.
37-to-30 victory over Team White. Police His bail was $100,000, ac-
gave the official all-clear moments later. cording to jail records.
A couple of patrol officers stayed on Martinez-Jimenez spent
campus afterward, just to assure the two days in jail but was
players and their parents they could re- being released Friday af-
turn to their cars safely. ternoon after prosecutors
“We all have to just be really diligent declined to file charges
in these times,” Stablein said, “and then against him in the case, au-
I think everybody’s sensitivity is up, thorities said.
too, and we all need to take care of each
other.” You can reach Staff Writer
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