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A resident of the home on 14th Street said Oreo, his small black and white dog, had been resting on a large pile of clothes set to be donated to the Salvation Army in a downstairs room. He smelled smoke and grabbed her from the room.
Eureka police said there is no threat to the community although they also note they have not identifed the shooter.
“We deal with intense stuff all the time in the environmental realm, right. So it's really satisfying just to go out and do something where you can see your impact,” said Griffith. The organization distributes reused soil bags for trash, buckets, grabbers and magnet sticks, especially useful for picking up screws and nails leftover from pallet bonfires.
Wesley Starritt was accused of killing 84-year-old Roger Mitchell Clark at the man’s home and 56-year-old Charles Levaugh as he slept in an alley on E Street, both in the Eureka area. He was also accused of stabbing both 38-year-old Ciuleandra Smith in Cooper Gulch after she denied him a cigarette and 43-year-old Bryan Tatum on the 1900 block of Holly Street in Eureka in 2020. Starritt was deemed mentally competent enough for criminal proceedings in June following years of transport hearings and mental evaluations.
