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Wednesday, July 1,2015 • 50€
Issue 297, Volume 116
Shooter on downtown rooftop
Staff report
Garcia
Gillispie
See LOOKING |4 Reyes
Webber
Meri
Garcia
Phillips
See STORKS 14
Ten Commandments monument must come down
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Reach Michael Bush at fbush@
civitasmedia.com
who said the monument must be
removed.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt
had argued that the monument
By Michael Bush
fbush@civitasmedia.com
several used shell casings,
all of the same caliber on
the roof.” Murphy added
that the casings were con-
sistent with the just one
gun.
Murphy said that after
law law enforcement offi-
cials cleared the roof of the
By Tinita Tennant
ttennant@civitasmedia.com
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STILL WANTED
Authorities are still looking for Diana Garcia.
Melinda Meri, and James Phillips, These have active
warrants and if anyone has any information on
their whereabouts please call Crime Stoppers at
482-TIPS.
Authorities
still looking
for three
Thursday
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in South- Cornell
west
Oklahoma spread out
early Tuesday morn-
ing, June 30, armed
with arrest warrants
for 19 individuals
suspected of drug
dealing, according to
District Attorney John
Wampler. The arrests
were the culmination
of several months of
investigations and
undercover purchases
of illegal drugs by the
to choose life for their
unborn babies and pro-
vide physical, emotional
and spiritual support
before and after birth.
Life Services at Path-
ways, Altus, invited
Save the Stork to their
pregnancy resource
center. Life Services at
Save the Storks, is a
non-profit ministry that
partners with pregnancy
resource centers around
the United States to help
them connect with abor-
tion-vulnerable women
in their community.
The ministry affords the
center the opportunity
to share God’s love with
the women, inspire them
abortion is not their only
option. Their data goes
further to say that three
out of five women would
visit a stork bus, choose
life for their baby.
Currently in Dallas,
Texas, Boston, Mass.,
New Jersey, Venice, Fla.,
Merced, Calif., Sacra-
mento, Calif., Delaware,
Silver Springs, Md., and
Yadkinville, N.C., Save
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expanding their outreach
and increasing their abil-
ity to serve their clients.
According to data pro-
vided by Save the Storks,
84 percent of post-abor-
tive women say they felt
that abortion was their
only option. The min-
istry/organization says
Murphy did confirm
that a person of interest
was arrested at the nearby
courthouse, but he did not
feel that this person was
related to the shooting at
The Towers.
The Towers apartment
building is located on the
northeast corner of Main
and Commerce.
If you have any informa-
tion about this incident, call
Altus Police, or Crime Stop-
pers at 482-TIPS.
Photo by Tinita Tennant | Altus Times
Michael Schweback, Save the Storks, Driver and Promoter, drove from St. Louis on his way to Texas, promoting the mission and
possibilies of Save the Storks mobile pregnancy resource centers.
Center looking to ‘Save the Storks’
. Free
A concert on
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A
| Ten Commandments monument
I on the Oklahoma Capitol grounds
1 is a religious symbol and must
be removed because it violates
the state’s constitutional ban on
I using public property to benefit a
| religion, the Oklahoma Supreme
j Court ruled Tuesday,
The court said the Ten Com-
mandments chiseled into the
6-foot-tall granite monument,
which was privately funded by a
Republican legislator, are “obvi-
ously religious in nature and are
an integral part of the Jewish and
Christian faiths."
The 7-2 ruling overturns a
decision by a district court judge
who determined the monument
could stay. It prompted calls by a
handful of Republican lawmakers
J for impeachment of the justices
was historical in nature and nearly
identical to a Texas monument
that was found constitutional by
the U.S. Supreme Court. The Okla-
homa justices said the local monu-
ment violated the state’s constitu-
tion, not the U.S. Constitution.
“Quite simply, the Oklahoma
Supreme Court got it wrong,"
Pruitt said in a statement. “The
court completely ignored the pro-
found historical impact of the Ten
Commandments on the foundation
of Western law."
Pruitt said his office would ask
the court for a rehearing and that
the monument will be allowed to
stay until the court considers his
request. Pruitt also suggested the
provision in the Oklahoma Con-
stitution that prohibits the use of
See MONUMENT 14
Several state GOP lawmakers
have called for judicial reform and
for the impeachment of seven
state Supreme Court justices who
made the political ruling to ban a
Ten Commandments monument
from the grounds of the Oklahoma
State Capitol.
The lawmakers include state
Reps. Kevin Calvey (R-OKC).
Casey Murdock (R-Felt), Lewis
Moore (R-Edmond). Dan Fisher
(R-Yukon), George Faught
(R-Muskogee). Jason Murphey
(R-Guthrie), Paul Wesselhoft
(R-Moore), Sally Kern (R-OKC),
Sean Roberts (R-Hominy), Mark
McBride (R-Moore) and David
Derby (ROwasso)
de Altus Times
Maldonado Molina
16 04/16/2016
ENDRICKS
S MILLER AVE
Pathways, being a pro-life they are not waiting for
ministry, dedicated to the mothers to come to
providing, help and hope them, they are going to
to women, men, and the mothers and they are
families, is interested in helping them realize that
Reports of a shooter on
the roof top of The Tow-
ers apartment building in
downtown Altus came in
to local authorities this
morning. Police Chief Tim
Murphy said that they only apartment building, they
have a vague description of searched door-to-door, and
the man, and no suspect has floor-by-floor of the building
been apprehended. looking for the suspect.
“One witness said they Murphy said that no
Michael Bush/Altus Times saw a man on the rooftop,” injures were reported with
An armed Sheriff's deputy is shown on the downtown square looking toward The Towers said Murphy. Another wit- the incident, and no prop-
apartment building this morning. A man with a gun was said to have been shooting from ness said they heard several erty has been reported or
the rooftop of the building, (see related photos on page 4 of today's edition) gunshots, and we did find found.
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