Donald, Oregon -- Double Murder
Mary
April 29, 2005
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Two found dead at house in Donald
Staff
3 teens, some with gunshot wounds,
are people of interest
What's next
The investigation is continuing into the deaths of Gale and
Becky Goode, whose bodies were found Thursday afternoon.
DONALD - Two people were found dead in their home Thursday
afternoon, and police are investigating whether two teenagers who suffered
gunshot wounds might be connected to the deaths.
Marion County Sheriff's Office received a call at 3:24 p.m.
Thursday reporting gunshots at 20531 Matthieu Street NE in Donald. Deputies
found two dead - a man and a woman - at the house.
They have been identified as Gale Goode, 47, and Becky Goode,
42, a married couple who lived at the home.
Later, three teenagers were stopped by police while driving on
Interstate 5, and have been identified as people of interest in the case.
The deaths came a day after someone at the Goode household
called authorities to report a burglary, said a Marion County dispatcher.
(Information very slow in coming...thinking wounded kids may be children of
the victims but haven't a clue since nothing's released).
eartha...@yahoo.com
April 29, 2005
Was double homicide a burglary gone bad?
(From KATU & AP reports)
DONALD, Ore. - New details are emerging about a double homicide in
Donald that investigators believe may have been the result of a
burglary gone wrong.
The deceased, who have been identified as 47-year-old Gale Goode and
42-year-old Becky Goode, were found inside their home on Matthews
Street on Thursday.
Shortly thereafter, police spotted a suspect vehicle near the home,
which led them on a chase on Interstate-5 that ended north of Salem.
Three people were in the vehicle, including a 14-year-old and
16-year-old who both had gunshot wounds. Their identities have not been
released due to their ages.
As for the third person, who has been identified as 19-year-old Jorge
Ybarra, he has been arrested and now faces murder and burglary charges.
Police say deputies had responded to the house in Donald after getting
a 911 call about gunshots.
Deputy Kevin Rau with the Marion County Sheriff's Department says he
does not know who placed the call or whether it came from inside the
house where the double homicide occurred.
Rau said there had been at least two burglaries in that area recently,
but investigators are still trying to piece together how those in the
car might be connected to the victims in the house.
"It's not a big leap to think they're connected in some way," Rau said.
Friends and neighbors tell KATU News that this may have been the tragic
result of three separate contacts that the Goodes may have had with the
suspects.
According to their accounts, they say it may have all begun on Tuesday
when the house next door to the Goodes was reportedly burglarized.
They say the same robbers came back the next day for another burglary
attempt and even fired two shots at Becky Goode, whose husband then got
a shotgun and fired it into the air to scare the suspects away.
Friends and neighbors tell KATU News they believe those same three
suspects may have come back on Thursday, which is when the double
homicide occurred, because they believed the Goodes could identify
them.
eartha...@yahoo.com
Shooting Deaths in Donald Result in Freeway Chase and Apprehension of
Suspects
Tim King - Reporter Salem-News.com (Apr 29, 00:15)
(Donald) - Residents in the small Oregon town of Donald were shocked
Thursday after learning of the shooting deaths of two local residents.
Police say that around 4:30 PM, three males entered a residence at
20531 Matthews Street, N.E. in Donald.
After that, an apparent gun battle ensued which resulted in the deaths
of the home's two residents, 47-year-old Gale Goode and 42-year-old
Becky Goode.
Marion County Sheriff's Spokesperson Kevin Rau says one of the
alleged intruders was shot three times in the head. The man,
19-year-old Jorge Ybarra, was transported to Salem Hospital by
ambulance. Two males accompanying him were described as juveniles and
their names were not available.
Deputies say that after the shooting, the three left the scene in a
gold sedan and that is when a freeway chase on southbound I-5 began.
Marion County deputies, Oregon State Police and Keizer Police all ended
up in the pursuit, which ended south of Woodburn on the southbound
Interstate.
Residents in Donald say that a number of burglaries have occurred in
recent weeks in the general area, there is speculation that the recent
robberies and Thursday's murders could be connected.
Mary
<eartha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the added information. It doesn't seem to be getting into the
local newspapers, yet. They were supposedly taking care of a small child
and nothing has been reported about the child. It also doesn't seem as if
the cops shot the suspects.
Mary
<eartha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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than the Statesman. I think there is more to this than a burg. gone bad but
maybe not.
eartha...@yahoo.com
Mary wrote:
>
> Thanks for the added information. It doesn't seem to be getting into
the
> local newspapers, yet. They were supposedly taking care of a small
child
> and nothing has been reported about the child. It also doesn't seem
as if
> the cops shot the suspects.
This Associated Press article mentions a grandchild.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/30/d8.or.shooting.0430.html
Donald residents said they were stunned by the news.
``They were just decent people,'' Virginia Merton said. "Their son and
my son went to school together all the way through high school. She
(Becky) was always at his baseball games."
Neighbors say the Goodes lived with their 4-year-old granddaughter.
Court records show they were appointed her guardians in 2002.
Here's more about the prior burglaries:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1114855155326240.xml&coll=7
Sheriff's officials haven't released many details on what happened at
the Goode home or how the teens were shot.
Marion County Deputy Kevin Rau said two burglary calls came in to the
sheriff's office this week about burglaries at a house next to the
Goodes' home. The neighbor first reported an overnight burglary on
Wednesday, he said.
Then on Thursday, Becky Goode called 9-1-1 and reported two boys
jumping over the neighbor's fence and running away, Rau said. She told
dispatchers that her husband went outside with a gun, but by then the
two, along with a third man, had escaped.
Felony murder is a Measure 11 crime that carries a maximum sentence of
life in prison.
eartha...@yahoo.com
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.
(KGW reporter Pat Dooris contributed to this article.)
Mary
<eartha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Just saw a blurb on the news that a 14 year-old has been arrested. Guess
I'll have to wait until they decide it's okay to release more.
Wee Bit Strange
neighbor who mentioned that the dya before the murders, the Goodes had
had a run-in with some kids they found in a neighbor's yard. This was
an older guy, a long-time neighbor who was friendly with the Goodes, so
I think he proabbly got the version from them (not just second- or
third-hand gossip). He said that Mrs. Goode had gone into the yard,
asked what was going on and -- to scare them away -- had fired her gun
into the air.
On the 9-1-1 call placed at that time, she told the dispatcher that
there were kids in *her* yard and *they* had fired a shot. I'm not
saying AT ALL that she deserved what she got or anything like that, but
I think the Goodes pissed off the wrong people. She fired a gun and
probably said some ugly things. I can't imagine that any Mexicans
would've been welcome in a Donald, Oregon, front yard -- unless they're
pushin' mowers.
Another thing that doesn't make sense is... I know the guys weren't in
Donald to sell magazines or raffle tickets; they were definitely up to
no good. But I can't figure out why *there*. Here's a link to a Yahoo!
Map of the Goode's home:
Why would three guys -- hoping to rob houses -- drive 26.3 miles from
their homes in relatively well-populated Salem (population: 136,000) to
that teeny-tiny hayseed town (population: 750)? And why, once in BFE,
would they select a home at the end of a dead-end country lane with no
easy access to the freeway? That makes no sense.
--Amy
eartha...@yahoo.com
Wee Bit Strange wrote:
> Another thing that doesn't make sense is... I know the guys weren't
in
> Donald to sell magazines or raffle tickets; they were definitely up
to
> no good. But I can't figure out why *there*. Here's a link to a
Yahoo!
> Map of the Goode's home:
>
>
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=20531+Matthieu+Street+NE&csz=donald%2C+or&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=
>
> Why would three guys -- hoping to rob houses -- drive 26.3 miles from
> their homes in relatively well-populated Salem (population: 136,000)
to
> that teeny-tiny hayseed town (population: 750)? And why, once in BFE,
> would they select a home at the end of a dead-end country lane with
no
> easy access to the freeway? That makes no sense.
>
> --Amy
I read Donald has population of 600. Why did they target that house or
that
area? Was it because it was so rural? Are gangs a problem in the
Salem area?
According to court documents, the 14-year-old is allegedly the one who
pulled the
trigger. Anything said about whether the young grandchild was in the
house or not?
Anything more about if the call came from within the house or the other
house at
the end of the road?
Here's a picture of the house. Very rural area. I like that about
Oregon,
it's not concrete from Portland to Salem (about an hour's drive) like
the Bay Area
cities.
Mary
"Wee Bit Strange" <wee_bit...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The probable-cause reports indicate that Lopez-Delgado entered the home with
a loaded shotgun, which he pointed at Gale Goode.
Lopez told investigators he knew Perez planned to kill the Goodes if they
recognized him as a participant in an earlier neighborhood burglary, the
documents say."
There is either more to the story or these teens were total idiots.
Mary
<eartha...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Salem. The answer is yes, but not as bad as Portland. There is some gang
activity further south of Salem but there is some hope there. A group of
young gang members (kids) were helping a very mentally ill man...talking him
down and actually waiting until help arrived. So it would be neat if gangs
turned good. Problem is that Salem is getting big and it's more difficult
to provide the help.
Betsy
"Mary" <xxxxosug...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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I live in Portland and I don't see that much gang activity. Most of
the gangs in Portland are African-American, some Asian, but there is
LOTS of Hispanic gang activity outside of Portland, not much in. Most of
the Hispanic gang activity is in the far suburbs--Hillsboro, Gresham,
Woodburn, etc where they have settled for the agricultural jobs. There
is, however some Hispanic drug dealing going on downtown that is always
being watched closely.
Betsy
eartha...@yahoo.com
Were the victims farmers? I never think of gangs going outside their
own neighborhood to burglarize homes, especially not 25 miles away.
This one seems very strange, especially since it was the third time the
house was burglarized and they knew the couple had guns and would shoot.
Betsy
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I don't know whether they were farmers or not. As far as the home the
kids burglerized, I am thinking of the Clutters. Who would go so far out
of their way to a remote farmhouse on the way to nowhere to burgle it?
Probably the same principle at work here. They heard about something of
value there, and kept going back for more.
Betsy
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Mary
"Betsy" <b.fe...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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houses (or used to) that might know the kids involved. News still slow in
coming (and that slowness is being talked about in one of the papers). Wow,
I thought of the Clutters, too. Truman Capote's (sp) version of that scared
the heck out of me (the book). I've never been able to read it again.
Brilliant writing...too good for me. And to think, Psycho didn't scare me a
bit.