On March 3, 2006, the Klickitat County Sheriff's Office was contacted by the Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles. A report was taken advising that a four-month-old child had been brought into the emergency room and efforts to resuscitate the child had failed. The child was deceased.
Detective Steve Shields responded to the hospital to conduct an investigation. The local Child Protection Services agent was also advised.
Information provided to the hospital indicated that the child had been sleeping. When checked on, the child was cool and non-responsive.
The Wasco County Coroner requested a medical examination of the child to be done at the State's Medical Examiner's Office in Portland to determine the exact cause of death.
Detectives learned that the child, Henry O'Shea Hickman had been born in his parent's home near Lyle with the assistance of a mid-wife on Nov. 2, 2005.
The parents Mike and Cyrill Hickman are cooperating with the inquiry.
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STATE PATROL
A Washougal woman suffered head and hand injuries and a broken ankle last Saturday, March 11, in a one-vehicle accident near milepost 77 on State Route 14, just east of the Lyle Tunnels, that halted traffic in both directions for one hour.
According to the State Patrol, Karen D. Smith, 61, driving a 1995 Jeep Cherokee, was eastbound on SR 14 at about 3 p.m.
Her vehicle "crossed the centerline, exited road on the westbound shoulder, entered the ditch on the north side of highway and struck a rock wall."
The Jeep then "cartwheeled one full revolution down the ditch, leaving front bumper at second point of impact at base of rock cliff. It bounced back into the road, coming to rest on its wheels, blocking both lanes."
Smith, who was traveling alone, was pinned in the vehicle for an hour while rescuers from the Lyle Fire Deparment "extricated her right ankle, which was trapped by the folded floorboard and firewall."
Smith was taken by Skyline ambulance to Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Ore., where she was treated for "contusion and laceration to forehead, lacerated right hand and broken right ankle."
The vehicle sustained damage to its left front, the primary point of impact, and overall damage from rolling. It was hauled away by Joe's Towing, Goldendale.
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