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Wilm°mmwmumir ileum , ° SINCE‘1886l- VOL. 137, N0. 5 M0 MASON COUNTY,‘THURS‘DAVY, “3.21023 V $2.00 7, lilltliilllsirl'll‘ltl*"t‘lmill*lr'l‘l’lfl’ri’lll‘swillw ssswusstmxsuxsaaRiR-r LOTaeaeC 005 SMALL Tenn PAPERS 1‘ . 927W 36.1mm!) AVE; same» WA 98584—3847 , l s- 13 8—83 Halftime perfOrmance The Shelton High School dance team performs a routine during halftime of a girls basketball game between the Highclimbers and Rochester on Jan. 26 at Terry Gregg Court in Shelton. Journal photo by Justin Johnson ,‘Tale of survival’ Shelton womanis story, on, foateline’ 3; Gordon Weeks gordon@masoncounty com ‘ A profile on an anti-govern- ment and anti-law enforcement extremist set to air on NBC’s “Dateline” at 9 pm. Friday will feature the recollections of his for- mer wife, a longtime Shelton resi- dent, and his son, a 2002 Shelton High School graduate. Lloyd Barrus, 67, is serving three concurrent life sentences without parole in a Billings, Mon- tana prison. He was in the driv- er’s seat when he and his now deceased son Marshall Barrus lured Broadwater County Deputy Mason Moore into chasing them, and Marshall then shot him in the face. Moore‘left behind three ‘ children. It wasn’t Lloyd Barrus’ first high-profile confrontation with law officers. In March 2020, he fired shots at a California High- way Patrol helicopter in Death Valley, forcing the pilot to land. Debra del Basque, a Shelton resident who works in the kitch- en at the Mason County Senior Activities Center, shared the de- tails of her tumultuous marriage to Lloyd in an interview last June with “Dateline’s” Keith Morrison at the Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton. Son Al Barrus joined them in the interview. 00111. ll 1 l lllll 53263 8 While living'in Anchorage, the two fled the abusive Lloyd when Al was 6. “I knew if we didn’t get away, we’d be harassed or killed,” Deb- ra said in an interview with the Shelton—Mason County Journal. Del Bosque is the widow of Ricardo del Bosque, a- Shelton School District liaison to the His- panic community who died from COVID in 2021. In sharing her experiences, “I hope it helps peo- ple,” she said. “I could have been a statistic, a woman killed and my children put into the foster system.” “She has ‘a story of survival and hope,” Al told the Journal in a telephone interview from his home in New Mexico. “Dateline” producers contacted Debra shortly after the death of Ricardo. “At that time, I didn’t have one ounce of ability to give them my time; So I ignored them,” she said. Then Lloyd received a life sen- tence with no chance for parole. The “Dateline” team had attended all the court hearings, Debra said. “I said, ‘I’m not opposed to do- ing an interview now,’ ” she said. Lloyd Barrus — who has 10 children in three families changed during their marriage, Debra said. '“He used to be a hard worker, District legislators addressJenino house Page 2 .INSIDE TODAY Lloyd Barrus always had his own flooring busi- ness Then he left the church, and that’s when the trouble began.” . ' Al said he has few early memo- ries of his father. One involved» his dad forcing him to pick out a switch froma tree for a beating following an infraction. “He is a horrible man,” he said. When Al and his mother fled, “We left in the middle of the night.” The move,was coordinated with the police, he said. . They spent a few days at a shelter for victims of domestic violence and then moved briefly to Mesa, Arizona. They changed their last name. And they moved to Shelton, where Debra’s parents lived. Al entered kindergarten at Pioneer Elementary School. When he was in middle school, his father would call him and re- ‘ fer to him by his nickname “Ti- ger.” Al was aware of his father’s anti—government and law enforce- ment rants. ‘ ~New school board member By Gordon Weeks gordon@masoncounty. com Lauren Gilmore, a research analyst for the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, is the new member of the Shelton School Board. At a special meeting Tuesday night at CHOICE High School, the school board voted 3-1 to choose Gilmore from five applicants to replace Mafivaest on the five-member board. Best was vice chairman of the board when he died Nov. 20. He was 67. Best joined the board in 2021 and represented District 2. Best was appointed to the five-member board in September 2021 to replace Lynn Eaton, who re~ signed that June after moving out of the director district. Best won a new term in the Nov. 2 general election. Gilmore will complete that term. The other applicants for the position were An- drew Wilford, Shannon Williams, Jonathon Isham and Ross Gallagher. The four school board mem- bers - with Matt Welander participating via Zoom from Maryland — interviewed the five candidates individually for 15 minutes. The board then met behind closed doors for an executive session that lasted more than an hour before resuming the pub— lic meeting for the vote. Welander, Keri Davidson and Karla Knudsen-Johnston voted for Gilmore, and Sandy Tarzwell voted against. Gilmore has two daughters who attend schools in the district. In the fall of 2021, she worked as a substitute teacher at Olympic Middle School and Shelton High School. Gilmore is a research analyst for OSPI’s Cen- ter for Improving Student Learning in Olympia. She develops and conducts education research, in- cluding collecting and analyzing information, solv- .ing problems, and communicating those results to stakeholders and policymakers. On Thesday evening, Lauren Gilmore was in- terviewed by the four members of the Shelton School Board as one of five applicants to re- place the late Marty Best on the five-member board. Journal photo by Gordon Weeks ‘ Two arrested for Kneeland assault By Matt Baide matt@masoncounty. com The Shelton Police department arrested two suspects Jan. 27 for an assault at Kneeland Park. ‘ According to police documents obtained through a public records request, Officer Warren Ohlson stated he arrived at Kneeland Park for a distur~ bance call and found a man who was bleeding from see SURVIVAL, page 8 Fire 12. investigation nears conclusion Page i O see ASSAULT, page North MasOn girls hoops secure district berth Page 19 ‘