Prosecutors want to try 14-year-old murder suspect in adult court 05:47 PM PDT on Monday, May 2, 2005
By ANTONIA GIEDWOYN, kgw.com Staff
SALEM ? The Marion County District Attorney?s Office will pursue a Measure 11 provisions waiver that would allow a 14-year-old murder suspect accused of killing a Donald, Ore. couple to be charged in adult court, sources close to the investigation told KGW on Monday.
Prosecutors Monday filed murder charges against Ernie Perez, 14, who allegedly shot Gale and Becky Goode to death in their home last week during a botched burglary attempt involving two other suspects.
Perez was scheduled to appear in Marion County Juvenile Court on Tuesday, said Deputy District Attorney Stephanie Tuttle. She would not confirm the waiver request.
Under Measure 11, a suspect must be 15 or older to be prosecuted in adult court.
Perez was described as "scary" by some classmates who said he threatened other boys with violence and may have belonged to a gang.
"He threatens people...he says, like, he?s going to slit your throat and shoot you and everything," said fellow Whiteaker Middle School student Garrson Deleon.
The second of three murder suspects, 16-year-old Emanuel Lopez-Delgado, was arraigned in Marion County Court Monday morning on two counts of felony murder.
The third suspect, 19-year-old Jorge Jimmy Ybara, will be arraigned Tuesday in Marion County Court, Tuttle said. She would not specify what charges he faces, but he was originally booked into jail on charges of burglary and murder.
The trio was arrested not far from the crime scene where the married couple was found shot to death inside their home in the 20000 block of Matthieu St. NE, in the small town of Donald on Thursday, authorities said.
When the suspect car was stopped on Interstate 5, deputies noticed Perez had multiple gunshot wounds, they said. Lopez-Delgado was also wounded and hospitalized.
Deputies had responded to the house after receiving a 9-1-1 call about gunshots. It was not clear who placed the call, or whether it came from inside the house, one of two houses at the end of a quarter-mile gravel road, said Deputy Kevin Rau of the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Rau said there had been at least two burglaries in that area recently.
These is the kind of animals that your government wants to flood your community with.