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Show J UTAH H-f - , L0TC-007 64101-1277 P THE Yous Town, You tluQHkon, Your NrwAns Thursday, fimwH 5, 2004 50 Ccwts vol 26 No. 6 hooting leaves AF neighborhood in shock, disbelief Br Tammy McPhon g UlAM VaUXY STAFF News that one of their own may have shot and killed a coworker has left many to an AsaericM Fork neighborhood la shock and disbelief- After leaving an early morning disciplinary meeting at the Provo River Water User Association on Monday, Loui Damll Kinyon, 49, of American Fork returned to hi workplace with a handgun, said Capt. Cody Cullimore of the Pleasant Grove Police Department Depart-ment Kinyon allegedly followed ahout 10 co-worker outside and shot and killed his newly appointed appoint-ed supervisor, Kent NeU Griffith, 26, of Pleasant Grove. lie then shot himself under the chin and 1 still In an undidoed hospital with severe injuries after several hour of surgery Monday eight, Cullimore maid, Kinyon i expected to recover, but because he ia (till in the hoa-pital, hoa-pital, and could be for a while, police are not going to be making formal homicide charge for a few day, Cu'ljxnoTe said. "I don't ee it a being anything we need to ruh on," he said. Neighbor of th Kiny&oa have taken the family flower' and note of encouragement and ym-pathy ym-pathy since they learned about the Monday morning shooting, said Cindy Purri, who ha been a neighbor to the family for about 19 year, "We don't know what to do for them, but we would like to do anything any-thing we can for them becaue they're audi a good family" Purvi aail Purvi described Kinyon a a quiet family man who used to be involved with one of his son's baaeball team, Kinyon U married f and ha four children: two married mar-ried son one of whom I living at the Kinyon home with hi wife and baby and two daughter, one a returned missionary for the Church of Jeu Chrit of Latter-day Latter-day Saint and one currently on an LDS tubman in AJaaka, Purvis said. "Our hearts just go out to them," Purvi said, later adding, "Let them know that we're behind them and juat we're sorry tar what' happened," 4 KelJy Anatead, another longtime long-time neighbor, said Kinyon also used to spend hour coaching his son in football. "He love his family and he's a good man, she said. Employee at Prove River Water Users Association are Bee SHOOTING cm page Z In front of the congregation Sunday during a monthly testimony testi-mony meeting, Kent Griffith told hi family how much he loved them and hi church service, serv-ice, said neighbor Dertk and Kemari Nielsom The next morning morn-ing Griffith, 06, waa shot and killed by a co-worker at the Prwvo River Water Users Aasoci-ation Aasoci-ation office in Pleaaant Grove, police said, Griffith waa always willing to help new neighbor move in and waa friend with most everyone, said Kemari Nielaon, who ha a son the same age a the Griffiths' Grif-fiths' youngest child Griffith graduated from BYU with a roaater degree in civil engineering and played offen sive lineman in football from im to Siater-in-law Lisa Hatch said one of hi "great privileges" wa to hike the ball to quarterback Ty Detmer, who has been inducted into the Cougar Club Hall of Fame. "He was very outgoing and friendly. You hear the phrase gentla giant, that wa the kind of guy he waa" former head football foot-ball coach LaVell Edwards said of Griffith. "He was always upbeat. He always had a happiness about him." Friend of the Griffith have set up an account at Zion bank under Kent Griffith's name. The money will go to hi children for future schooling, Hatch said. tin i ! -. : ' 1 - 1 i - i V U ! V " f Differing opinions Mama t&Mm cod PkJk P.o rthaot a teww from Th4 kratfrxxy rmM7 57orng informtitign helps safety, students and schools Br Tammy McPhcsjom Win student have problem at American Fork Junior High Schol, they often turn to Detective Keith Southard. Southard ha built a personal per-sonal relationship with tli student throughmi the ; one and a half ytar he ha been there a 3f 'jNhooly resource flkjft'JtV-rf They feel fliiy ean'comf ' tafk to me he saii As part of a recent safe cf training in Savannah, Savan-nah, Ga., 12 representative from American Fork City, Alpine SthofI Dwtrict, te Divwtioft of Child and Family Fami-ly Service, a domestic violence vio-lence advocate, and other learned better how to ue rtmurt officer, like Southard, a liaiaona to increase safety in the cyfA-munity. cyfA-munity. The four-day training, funded by a federal grant from the National Center for ExpPAud and Mirng Children, opened the eye of official to what resource are available and how fmpwtant it i f;r d..ferr,t agende to work together and share hJbmMkm, said EiS Delaney, aStafit sttperlntender.t of Alpine The different agenrie' can prevent violence and crime and provide families with resource they might not otherwise be aware of, said Brent Piatt, weatern School District, who attended attend-ed the training. It's pt really a chrJ safety Uoe, it's a cmmuni-ty cmmuni-ty safety issue he said. , The American Fork gr&up, including . ' - "do 'The ideology of sharing working on information is a huge $t$miiag a me roo- cf g n iiaff etrtftnea each f 1 111 ' n ageney' dutie. The pofky will be expanded to includa other agencies, hk the DCFS, and to mdude criop-eration criop-eration and sharing of Information Infor-mation so the continuity of the program i not lost, said American Fork Polk Chief Terry V. Pox, who i ttMym-sihle ttMym-sihle for getting t grant. The jdeoly of sharing information is a 1age step," he said. If a domestic violence advocate, a persyn who help support victim of domestic violence, i aware of problem in th home and share that m formation with th chool, the teacfer and the school moerrce officer offi-cer will know bttr what i ha'PiperIng te:iht,ftadfit'i hte vA Y'fp5;!p Mm or region director for IJCFS. "We have a lot of agencies with a lot of piece of information infor-mation and we need to share it better," he said, Because American Fork ha been proactive in training train-ing and getting involved wth school safety, it will 1 the model for the Alpine School District to create other team to open communication, com-munication, Delaney said, calling the American Fork Police Department "one of the best in the ditrict ," Delaney i in the proce of setting up meeting with the other 14 communities throughout the Alpine School District, starting with th Pleasant Grove Police Drtmert. Delaney fie SAFOXoit page 14 Legislating a Legaqc Local legislators made history I t Urn G, Uimcs A::rkxn Fwfc ha s a lyg ad &.tii4f .iid t &f lgiltioirt, bfo$sig wi'isi Leard . 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