Prosecutors Issue Arrest Warrant for Murder Suspect
The Yakima County Prosecutors office has issued an arrest warrant for a man who Yakima Police say killed two people in a domestic violence incident earlier this month.
33-year-old Lumberto Rodriguez is still recovering from injuries at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. In the warrant prosecutors charge Rodriguez with 2 counts of first- degree murder, 2 counts of kidnapping and one count of attempted first-degree murder.
The domestic incident reported January 8 after police say Rodriguez assaulted and ran over the 30-year-old woman who was the mother of his 2-year-old child. Police say he then took the child to relatives and then drove the wrong way along Highway 97 in Wapato. He crashed head-on into another vehicle killing the driver and injuring a passenger.
They say the timeline for how quickly the county can move through the state reopening phases will depend on how much available vaccine is allocated to Yakima County.
Point In Time Survey of Homeless Different This Year
The annual counting of homeless people in Yakima will look a little different this year because of COVID-19. It s called the annual Point in Time Survey and it s usually coupled with the Project Homeless Connect, a one day service fair. But the fair has been cancelled this year. And officials with Yakima County and the Homeless Network of Yakima County say they won t use volunteers to conduct the count this year so they re not exposed.
Instead they ll use workers in outreach programs. The outreach workers will conduct the survey while in the field later this month.
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