Death hard to handle

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THURSDAY ❘ OCTOBER 26, 2006
Lawyers
cite fear
in killing
Case might go
to jurors today
By Mike Cruz
Staff Writer
Cold fear was at the core of the killing of
11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw and played
a significant role in the trial of four men
charged with the San Bernardino girl’s
death, defense attorneys said Wednesday.
Defendant Harold Phillips thought only
of staying alive when
gang leaders told him
to go to the Cedarwood Apartments on
Nov. 13. They threatMYNISHA’S CIRCLE ened him with death if
Committed to finding
he didn’t fire on rival
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his lawyer said.
“I know how many
bullets are in this gun, and you better use
them or I’m gonna shoot you dead right
here in the head,” lawyer Gregory Waitman
yelled at Phillips while holding the weapon
to re-enact the scene during his closing
argument.
Defense attorneys began their closing
arguments Wednesday afternoon in West
Valley Superior Court in Rancho
Cucamonga and were scheduled to continue today. The judge briefed jurors that
they could receive the case today to start
deliberations.
Phillips is one of four men — including
Sidikiba Greenwood, Sinque Morrison and
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Senior won’t lose home
Redlands district, female farmer settling
ceptual agreement with the Redlands Unified School District to sell
her 9.5-acre farm so the district can
build a new high school between
West Pioneer and Domestic avenues.
Disparte, whose clash with
school district officials put a sympathetic, human face on the controversial issue of eminent domain, will
By George Watson
Staff Writer
REDLANDS — In what appears
to be the end of a year-long legal
dispute, the city will get a new high
school and an 84-year-old woman
and some of her many animals get
to stay on their century-old farm.
Ellen Disparte has reached a con-
be allowed to remain in her home
on two acres of land until she dies
or decides to move.
Both sides faced the unknown in
a San Bernardino Superior Court
hearing set for Nov. 17 as part of
the school district’s effort to take
Disparte’s property via eminent
domain.
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Ellen Disparte,
84, has agreed
to sell the farm
her family has
owned for four
generations to
the Redlands
Unified School
District to build
a new high
school.
BIZARRE FREEWAY CRASH VICTIMIZES CAREFUL DRIVER
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SB County
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Judge again advises
settling with Colonies
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Kelly Seley, 18, right, starts to cry as she looks at photos of her boyfriend, Shawn Kettlewell, who died Tuesday morning in a freak car accident
on Interstate 215 in San Bernardino. A battery from a vehicle that had flipped flew through Kettlewell’s windshield, striking and killing him.
By Jeff Horwitz
Staff Writer
Whatever San Bernardino County officials said during last week’s mediation of
the Colonies Partners dispute, it wasn’t
this.
During a hearing Wednesday in San Bernardino Superior Court, the county’s legal
team strenuously argued that a judge’s tentative ruling in favor of the Upland developer’s potentially nine-figure lawsuit was
legally indefensible and in stark defiance of
a higher court’s ruling.
Only six days previously, however, the
county and the Colonies announced that
they were making “great progress” toward
settling the Colonies’ flood-control suit.
On Wednesday, Judge Christopher J.
Warner left little doubt about which
approach he felt stood a better chance of
success.
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Death hard to handle
By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
Staff Writer
Shawn Kettlewell traveled the freeways around the Inland Empire for his
work installing tile, linoleum and other
flooring.
He was overly cautious behind the
wheel, so much so that his family sometimes accused him of “driving like a
grandma.”
But no amount of careful driving
could have helped the 30-year-old High-
Shawn Kettlewell
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The video game “Bully” hits
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the region is still reeling from the massive
Fontana High School riot and a major brawl
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Her son was born June 5, 1976, in
grove man Tuesday when he happened
to drive by as a battery flung from a car Riverside and went to North High
flipping over hit him like a cannonball. School there. He dropped out of school
Kettlewell, the youngest of six chil- in his sophomore year to concentrate on
dren, died on the side of Interstate 215 music and to go work with his father,
in San Bernardino on Tuesday, just a relatives said.
few minutes from home. The strange
He played bass guitar in the local
circumstances surrounding his death heavy metal band Contortion and
made it that much more difficult for his formed another group a year ago called
family to understand.
Prolific, which opened for the San Fran“This kid was too ... ornery to die cisco-based black metal band, Dragonyoung. He was so full of life,” said his lord, in Riverside this year.
mother, Joann Kettlewell.
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