“I believe in sharing our lives and vulnerabilities with one another.“
Lauren Skare Ferry ’17 is a social worker in the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital. Read her reflection below.
My role models, when it comes to creating and maintaining relationships, are my parents. They’re both pastors, and I watched them make connections with other people. It gave me a foundation — and a yearning — for social connection.
My parents were good at cultivating relationships among my siblings with daily check-ins. Every night, for example, we did “highs and lows” as a family, talking about the best part of our day and not-so-great part of our day. I liked the way that it allowed us to be individuals, but also to share our lives, our vulnerabilities, and our emotions with other people.
I’m drawn to people who are able to sit with me and celebrate my joys, but also show up and be with me during sadness or trials.
I also think it’s important to understand the way that relationships have different seasons. My friends at St. Olaf are incredibly important to me. When we were students, I saw them every day, I lived with them, and I ate with them. But when I left St. Olaf, we had to find new ways to maintain those connections. For a couple of my friends, that has meant watching The Bachelor together each week. Of course, it’s not about The Bachelor at all. It’s an excuse to get together once a week.
As an ICU social worker, I see a lot of people grieving — either a critical illness, or at the end of life. Big moments, like trips together, come up. But simpler things do, too — like they will miss talking to their loved ones. They will miss their smiles. These little things create a strong sense of connection.
So much of what builds meaningful relationships is our ability to be vulnerable with one another, and to express our authentic selves.
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Back in January of 1978, newly married John and Mona Skare, shown above in a current photo, made the decision to purchase the old Bricelyn Cooperative Creamery building and turn it into their home. The block wall, shown at right in the above photo, is part of the original structure.
John and Mona Skare smile and laugh as they reminisce and share the story of how they came to live in their current home, which once was a thriving business known as the Bricelyn Cooperative Creamery.
“We got married in December of 1977,” Mona recalls. “One month later, in January, John showed the old creamery building to me.”
According to the couple, to say that it was a fixer-upper would be a major understatement.
“It had broken windows and was full of snow, junk and broken glass,” Mona says. “John thought we could make it into a home.”
And John was able to sell her on the idea.
“Love will make you do funny things,” Mona says, laughing.
First, they had to figure out who had the authority to sell the property.
“The building was constructed in 1931,” John comments. “But, the creamery had been out of business since 1952 and had been used for storage for a number of years.”
John worked with a lawyer in Blue Earth and placed a notice in the paper three times searching for anyone who owned an interest in the building. Eventually, John and Mona were able to take possession of the property.
“The guy who was storing some metal in the building came and got his stuff,” John notes. “At that time there was still a gentleman who had a milk route and he was still using the walk-in cooler.”
Eventually John and Mona were able to get to work on their new property with the goal of making one third of the building suitable to live in.
“I think a lot of people in town were wondering about us and what were these crazy people doing,” Mona says. “They were thinking, ‘What is going on?'”
She smiles and shares people figured out we were OK.
“They became our friends,” she comments.
Bricelyn was John’s hometown. His family had moved to the city when John’s father got the job as the depot manager for the railroad.
Mona hailed from Decorah, Iowa. She went to college at the University of Iowa and became a special education teacher.
“I taught 24 years in Albert Lea, 11 in Blue Earth, five in Forest City, Iowa, and a year in DeWitt, Iowa,” Mona shares.
Meanwhile, John got his degree from Mankato State University.
“I was an art teacher,” John says. “I taught in DeWitt and Klemme, Iowa. I also worked for many years at Winnebago Industries in Forest City.”
While working on remodeling the creamery to make it into a house, John and Mona lived with John’s parents for a year and then rented a house until they could move into the creamery.
“John’s parents had cats and I am allergic to cats, so that didn’t work out too well,” Mona says.
Eventually, they made the move into their “new” home.
“We had sheetrock walls and only the sub flooring,” Mona explains. “But we moved in.”
Remodeling the creamery presented its own unique set of issues for John and Mona to deal with.
“There were some big blocks of cement we had to break up so they could be removed,” Mona remarks. “We both operated jack hammers to get the job done.”
But the first thing the couple did was seal up the outside of the house.
“We put on a pitched roof and fixed the windows and doors on the back third of the building,” John says. “That had to be done before we could move on to any interior work.”
The couple share they had help from Marshal Bartels of Blue Earth who did a lot of the outdoor carpentry work and helped seal the structure up.
Part of the old creamery had a second story with cement stairs leading up to the area. That space would become John’s studio.
“I used to do a lot of weaving and that space provided me an area for my looms and a place to work,” John comments.
The walk-in cooler room remains in their house, only now it is used for storage. It still has the heavy door at its entrance with its original hardware.
“We tried to preserve some of the original building,” Mona says. “We pretty much used the structure that was here. We didn’t change too many walls.”
The couple eventually added an upstairs loft with bedrooms, a bathroom and a living room. They also redid the original entryway into the building.
“When we just had one third of the house fit for living the entrance to our home was on the side of the building,” John says. “I think it was in 2012 that we finished the rest of the house.”
Part of getting the house ready to live in involved building a raised floor in the original area that they were first working on.
“We did that so we could run the pipes for the plumbing underneath the floor,” John says.
Their furnishings inside of their home feature many family heirlooms, including a heavy-duty wood bench that had been built and used by Mona’s father.
As for the decorations adorning the walls, they definitely have a Norwegian flavor.
“My dad’s parents were born in Norway,” John shares.
“And my paternal grandmother was born in Norway,” Mona adds.
John and Mona raised two daughters, Sarah and Anna, in their beautiful home. In fact, John became a stay-at-home dad and took care of the girls while being able to spend some time in his studio.
“I don’t really know if that’s true,” he says. “I think they took care of me.”
From an abandoned, run-down creamery to a warm, inviting, beautiful home – it has been quite an adventure for the couple.
But, as Mona said earlier, “Love will make you do funny things.”
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Skare, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, has assembled and translated twenty documents written by the leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the anti-Israel terrorist group operating primarily out of the Gaza Strip since the group’s inception in 1981.
The documents (by leaders such as Fathi Shiqaqi and Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, the group’s first two secretaries general), help the reader better understand the ideology of a generally under-analyzed organization. They delve into the founding and thinking of the group, its perspectives on Islamic history and religion, its views on violence, and its relations with other Palestinian factions such as Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In short, Skare provides valuable primary texts from which one can learn much about PIJ’s origins and outlook while his notes suggest that he drew too close to his research subjects—an all too-common problem in the deeply tainted field of Middle Eastern studies.
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/ Research / Research areas, centres and networks / Research groups / Neuroradiology - MRI physics – Stefan Skare's research group Neuroradiology - MRI physics – Stefan Skare's research groupThe research group consists of MR physicists at Karolinska University Hospital and GE Healthcare
and develops new imaging methods for brain MRI
The research group consists of MR physicists and engineers at the Karolinska University Hospital
driving research and development of new MR imaging acquisition methods for clinical use in neuroradiology
We develop software for the MR scanner image capture process (pulse sequences) as well as image corrections and image reconstruction methods - all integrated into our clinical environment
and NeuroMix have also been shared with other clinics and hospitals around the world
where each series of images typically takes several minutes to acquire
a time during which the patient needs to lie still
The research group has two major research themes to deal with this issue
One is ultra-fast imaging such as NeuroMix
producing nine series with the most common MR contrasts in under 3 min
real-time) motion correction so that patients can move their heads freely during the MR examination with good diagnostic image quality
This is particularly important for MRI examinations of the pediatric brain
where our goal is to drastically reduce the use of general anesthesia
which is resource-intensive and not completely risk-free
It also leads to long waiting times for MRI and long MRI examinations
To make the MR image planes follow the patient's head a continuous measurement of the movement of the head is needed
we have purchased a fiber-optic infrared "point-cloud" camera (illuminated in the illustration) from a danish startup company
This device measures the position of the patient's head inside the MR scanner about 10 times/sec
That information is then communicated to the ongoing pulse sequence acquiring the current image (over several minutes)
Motion monitoring of one of our pediatric patients being examined with our motion robust real-time corrected MR protocol based solely on our own pulse sequences
Above is a 3D rendering of the child's face as seen by the point cloud camera
Below is motion information for the entire MRI scan
which is continuously fed back to the imaging process to make the image planes follow the head movements
We are also actively working on our own hardware-based sensor - referred to as a WRAD
This is an acronym for a Wireless Radiofrequency-triggered Acquisition Device
it is a small wireless marker that synchronizes itself to the MRI scanner by detecting RF pulses
The device can then eavesdrop on the MR system’s gradient fields (typically very short navigators < 1 ms) and decode its location in the imaging coordinate frame to a high degree of accuracy
This allows us to perform low-latency (~3 ms) prospective motion correction with minimal modifications to the scanner setup
We believe the simplicity of this approach
is critical when performing prospective motion correction on real patients
including our sedation-free children’s brain protocol
we are constantly iterating the WRAD design with feedback from MR technologists and patients
but also from a generic need for better performance and stability
This project has a more “engineery” feel compared to some of our other goals and includes design
and 3D modeling with tangible-physical results
Despite real-time motion correction with Tracoline or WRAD
it is fundamentally difficult to obtain good image quality with long-TE 3D sequences such as SWI
the phase changes in the brain (which occur due to long echo times) result in image artifacts (top-right
a complete image plane is obtained in 0.1 s under the same phase conditions in the brain
Several repetitions of the same image plane are averaged after motion correction to increase the SNR to the appropriate level
There is a clinical need for 3D RARE images with isotropic voxels that can be reformatted into several different planes
it increases the information for the radiologist and facilitates the review of the images
The sequences typically used to collect these 3D data sets require long echo trains
which makes them sensitive to movement and also leads to so-called "T2 blurring"
In order to provide these reformatable volumes for patients who cannot lie still
we have developed a movement-robust alternative
can obtain images with the same qualities as its 3D counterpart
but at the same time can withstand large head movements
Here we show one slice per contrast from NeuroMix on a pediatric patient
as the first scan in our motion robust pediatric MR protocol
With a scan time for NeuroMix of ~2:40 min
where the 2D contrasts are motion robust and can be registered against each other in the reconstruction
these images usually turn out well even in the presence of larger head movements
And with future integration with WRAD & Tracoline
NeuroMix will be even more robust against head motion
Niekerk A, Berglund J, Sprenger S, Norbeck O, Avventi E, Rydén H, Skare S. Control of a wireless sensor using the pulse sequence for prospective motion correction in brain-MRI. Magnetic resonance in Medicine 2022 Feb;87(2):1046-1061View in MedlineView fulltext10.1002/mrm.28994
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Berglund J, Sprenger T, van Niekerk A, Rydén H, Avventi E, Norbeck O, Skare S
Motion-insensitive susceptibility weighted imaging
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2021 86;4 1970-1982
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Kits A, De Luca F, Kolloch J, Muller S, Mazya MV, Skare S, Delgado AF
One-Minute Multi-contrast Echo Planar Brain MRI in Ischemic Stroke: A Retrospective Observational Study of Diagnostic Performance
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING 2021 Oct;54(4):1088-1095
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Ryden H, Norbeck O, Avventi E, Skorpil M, van Niekerk A, Skare S, Berglund J
Chemical shift encoding using asymmetric readout waveforms
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE 2020 ; 1468-1480
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Berglund J, Ryden H, Avventi E, Norbeck O, Sprenger T, Skare S
Fat/water separation in k-space with real-valued estimates and its combination with POCS
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE 2020 83;2 653-661
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Norbeck O, Sprenger T, Avventi E, Ryden H, Kits A, Berglund J, Skare S
Optimizing 3D EPI for rapid T-1-weighted imaging
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE 2020 84;3 1441-1455
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Avventi E, Ryden H, Norbeck O, Berglund J, Sprenger T, Skare S
Projection-based 3D/2D registration for prospective motion correction
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2020 84;3 1534-1542
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Berglund J, van Niekerk A, Ryden H, Sprenger T, Avventi E, Norbeck O, Glimberg SL, Olesen OV, Skare S
Prospective motion correction for diffusion weighted EPI of the brain using an optical markerless tracker
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE 2020 ; 1427-1440
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Rydén H, Berglund J, Norbeck O, Avventi E, Sprenger T, van Niekerk A, Skare S
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2020 84;5 2456-2468
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Norbeck O, van Niekerk A, Avventi E, Ryden H, Berglund J, Sprenger T, Skare S
T-1-FLAIR imaging during continuous head motion: Combining PROPELLER with an intelligent marker
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE 2020 ; 868-882
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Delgado AF, Kits A, Bystam J, Kaijser M, Skorpil M, Sprenger T, Skare S
Diagnostic performance of a new multicontrast one-minute full brain exam (EPIMix) in neuroradiology: A prospective study
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2019 50;6 1824-1833
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Skare S, Sprenger T, Norbeck O, Rydén H, Blomberg L, Avventi E, Engström M
A 1-minute full brain MR exam using a multicontrast EPI sequence
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2018 79;6 3045-3054
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Norbeck O, Avventi E, Engström M, Rydén H, Skare S
Simultaneous multi-slice combined with PROPELLER
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2018 80;2 496-506
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Rydén H, Berglund J, Norbeck O, Avventi E, Skare S
T1 weighted fat/water separated PROPELLER acquired with dual bandwidths
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2018 80;6 2501-2513
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Engström M, Mårtensson M, Avventi E, Norbeck O, Skare S
Collapsed fat navigators for brain 3D rigid body motion
Magnetic resonance imaging 2015 33;8 984-91
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Engström M, Mårtensson M, Avventi E, Skare S
On the signal-to-noise ratio efficiency and slab-banding artifacts in three-dimensional multislab diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2015 73;2 718-25
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Skare S, Hartwig A, Mårtensson M, Avventi E, Engström M
Properties of a 2D fat navigator for prospective image domain correction of nodding motion in brain MRI
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2015 73;3 1110-9
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Diffusion-weighted 3D multislab echo planar imaging for high signal-to-noise ratio efficiency and isotropic image resolution
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2013 70;6 1507-14
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Skare S, Holdsworth SJ, Lilja A, Bammer R
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Diffusion weighted vertical gradient and spin echo
Magnetic resonance in medicine 2012 68;6 1755-63
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SAN ANTONIO – KSAT court reporter Erica Hernandez was recently featured in the Oxygen true crime show “Snapped” to discuss the trial of Sasha Skare
who was convicted of killing a San Antonio rapper related to Beyonce
a San Antonio rapper who went by the name of Kordone
at his apartment at The Towers complex in the 16700 block of La Cantera Parkway on Jan
Police said it appeared Derouen had been shot through his front door
Officers quickly identified Skare as their suspect
and she was arrested before being taken to the Bexar County Jail to face a murder charge
Skare already had a pending aggravated robbery case in Travis County in connection with a botched drug deal and shooting of her boyfriend
Erica shared a little bit about the episode in a social post on Facebook.
“My mom years ago introduced me to a show called Snapped
It was cool to be featured in the latest episode about the Sasha Skare case that I covered last year
The episode is out now if you want to watch!”
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Donald Owen Skare was welcomed into his heavenly home on August 23
He died peacefully at home surround by family in Ozark
His funeral service will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 29, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Willmar with visitation one hour prior to the service at the church. The service will be streamed on the church's YouTube page. Interment with military honors will be in the church cemetery. Memorials are preferred to the Calvary Lutheran Church Cemetery Fund. Arrangements are with Harvey Anderson Funeral Home in Willmar
Donald “Don” was born on August 15
His godparents were Hans and Ester Johnson and Ole and Betsy Ellington
He was confirmed in faith at West Norway Lake Lutheran Church
He married Rebecca “Becky” Skare on April 10
Together they had 13 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren
Don worked for Quam Construction for 51 years as a heavy equipment operator supervisor
Don enjoyed keeping a manicured lawn and gardening and grilling for family
Don took much pride in his family and enjoyed spending time with his daughters and their families
became his little love that he enjoyed taking for walks and sharing his treats
He was preceded in death by his parents; son
Mona and Gloria; and his many grandchildren
Erik Skare is a historian and researcher at the University of Oslo and an associate researcher at Sciences Po in Paris
He specializes on Palestinian history with a particular focus on religion and secular politics
Skare is also interested in the advancement of the digital humanities and computational methodology
and he co-organizes the digital IKOS (DIKOS) group
Skare is the author of several books such as A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith
and Revolution in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press
for which he was awarded the Palestine Book Awards
and Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion (I.B
He has published extensively on Palestinian non-violent and violent resistance
I met her in 2010, at a conference held at a U.S. military base in Alabama. I was there to ask questions about drones. She was there as part of a training program for military leadership. Lt. Col. Siri Skare, Norway’s first female fighter pilot
and I sat on a bench in the austere close-cropped lawn outside the base hotel and talked
She was about to leave to join the United Nations mission to Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan
Her job there would include work on issues related to women’s rights
She wanted to learn and to understand about Muslim women
Her sincerity, the earnest curiosity of her questions, was striking. I did not believe in the possibility that any Westerners could do any good at all in Afghanistan or anywhere else in the region. The War on Terror, the occupation of Afghanistan, the use of my own country, Pakistan, as a supply route for American troops and the remote control drone deaths
and we spoke about it that afternoon; but she also believed that good work could be done
specifically because it was a UN mission focused on human rights and humanitarian work
The last thing we spoke about was our daughters—hers was flying in that afternoon from Oslo
We bonded over how gut-wrenching it always is for a mother to say goodbye
he called the General’s remarks “unconstitutional.”
Word of Jones’s Quran burning got to Afghanistan and to Mazar-e-Sharif, the city where Lt. Col. Skare was posted at the UN compound. It was a Friday, and during prayers, speakers and preachers at the city’s famous Blue Mosque riled up their own congregants
urging them to stand up against the insult that had been done to their holy book
thousands of men had gathered outside the UN compound
they believed that a white and Western person had desecrated their faith
so the only white Westerners they could reach would have to pay
Later in the afternoon, the gathering became ever more enraged and the cries for avenging the desecration became louder. Against the crowd of thousands of men
These policemen appeared overwhelmed by the size of the crowd
the protesters saw this and began to press forward and storm the compound
the first line of police officers inside the compound—there were only a dozen of them—simply put down their weapons and surrendered to the crowd
Two policemen who were hiding behind a water tanker shot at the angry men
another managed to disarm one of the policemen and take his Kalashnikov rifle
like so many others sacrificed in the path of a war whose goals remain unclear even after twenty years
I received an email that took me back to those days immediately after Lt
who had found the article I had written years ago about her mother
piecing together the bits and pieces of her mother that she could find
Wars never end for those who have lost what is dearest to them
I wonder whether America can look differently at the events that took place at the UN compound after the insurrection that took place in Washington
The storming of the UN compound by a mob riled up by firebrand preachers
a crowd willing to do anything to avenge what they perceived as an unalterable wrong
So too should the difficulty of discerning complicity
of resolving questions such as whether the Capitol Hill police sympathized with the insurgents and let them in
Perhaps those Afghan policemen tasked with protecting the UN compound had similar sympathies toward the mob avenging the burning of the Quran
Crowds and mobs and faith are more complicated than the us-and-them distinctions of warfare would have one assume
Americans have instructed other countries—Afghanistan
to take just a few examples—on how to fight the enemy within
Those same exhortations seem to have been forgotten now that Americans look at their own terror within
There is no solace and no closure for those lost in war
those killed because of the distant crimes of others elsewhere
Colonel Skare is only a few hours’ drive from Gainesville
where the actions of a venomous and Islamophobic church leader indirectly ended up condemning a brave woman to death
That was one assailant; the other was the young man who took a stolen gun and used it to take the life of a woman who had only the greatest respect for his faith
What closure can there be for that woman’s daughter when neither of these assailants have been punished
The end of one war far away does not mean an end to war for Americans
At a time when calls for unity ring everywhere
Americans must reckon with the truth that American unity has
been constituted of a hatred of arbitrary foreign “others” too weak to argue with America
America is good at banishing the ghosts of wars past
There is no counting up of all the children
who have been left motherless and fatherless and who search in this or that corner of the internet for some recollection
of the rekindled memory of a brave woman wrongly killed
is only that Americans can now understand the cruelty of war in a way that was impossible before
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Rodney “Rod” Skare, age 85, of Spring Valley, MN died peacefully on Sunday April 11th, 2021 surrounded by his family at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, MN.
He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Wykoff, MN where he served as an Elder, taught Sunday School and sang in the choir for many years. He also served as a volunteer instructor in Firearm safety for the state of Minnesota for 52 years in Spring Valley, MN retiring in 2012.
He enjoyed fishing at the cabin up north, deer hunting with his family, watching his grandson’s sporting events and truly had great fun with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife Carol of Spring Valley, a daughter Lisa (Martin) Johnson of Sioux Falls, SD and a son David (Debra) Skare of Spring Valley, MN 4 grandchildren; Nathan Skare, Nicole (Cody) Doohen, Sarah (Jon-Eric) Deutsch and Heather Johnson, 4 great-grandchildren; Kaden, Cody, Blake and Zoey, and a half brother Robert (Deborah) Lillie of Williams, AZ.
He was preceded in death by an infant son, Allan, His step father Lloyd Lillie, his mother Verna Lillie and a brother Gerald Skare.
Services will be held 2:00 P.M. Friday April 16, 2021 at St John’s Lutheran Church in Wykoff with pastor Michael Harman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery following the service. Visitation will be held 4-7 p.m. on Thursday April 15, 2021 at the Hindt Funeral Home in Spring Valley.
The main threats are large hail, damaging wind gusts, and heavy rains with an isolated tornado also possible.
FORECASTSHARE PHOTOS & VIDEO'This story is not over,' Mother believes a suspected murderer should still be behind barsby Morgan Burrell
SAN ANTONIO - Police are still searching for 21-year-old Sasha Skare
Skare is a suspect in killing Martell Derouen
inside The Towers Apartments along La Cantera Parkway
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knew Skare and had a relationship with her when the family lived in Austin
So I opened my home to her and she resided with us for several years
I didn't have any concerns about her whatsoever."
Misty received news her son was shot and killed while he was with Skare
the shooting appeared to havestemmed from a drug deal gone bad
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on November 29 in the 1003 block of Justin Lane at an apartment in North Austin
After Austin investigators did some digging
they noticed that Skare's story was not matching up with what she'd originally told them
"It is the ultimate betrayal," Misty said
"Because you open your home to someone and you offer them every single thing that you have and for the end result to be the demise of my child and really no true answers of you know what actually transpired."
Skare was named Marshal's Most Wanted on a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon
And if you love and cared about him as much as you say you did?"
Skare was eventually arrested in North San Antonio by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
then she wouldn't have been able to make bail," Misty said
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Misty believes more should have been done to keep Skare behind bars.
"She was involved in an incident that resulted in the death of somebody and I think that she needs to be held accountable," Misty said.
Andrew left behind a young daughter, named India, who the family loves and adores.
"He idolized her and he would have done anything for her and that's part of the reason I've taken over paternal responsibilities," Misty said. "There's a whole legacy that's been left behind and this story is not over."
Meanwhile, Misty said she wishes she would have worked harder to get answers in her son's case.
"If I would have pressed harder if I would have fought more or if I would have fought harder, she would be incarcerated and they wouldn't be dealing with this grief."
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Misael Gomez
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SAN ANTONIO – Exactly one week after declining a plea deal for a 20 year prison sentence
a Bexar County jury sentenced Sasha Skare to 55 years in prison on Friday for killing a San Antonio rapper in 2021
Skare is convicted of fatally shooting Martell Derouen
Martell Derouen’s family hugged each other while Skare remained stoic
read her victim impact statement right after the verdict was read
She honored Martell Derouen’s memory while delivering her final message to his killer
“The pain and agony you brought upon my family is unbearable,” Kami Derouen told Skare
because you’ve made your bed and now it’s time for you to lay in it.”
The jury deliberated Skare’s punishment Friday for four and a half hours after each side made their final closing arguments
Three and a half hours into deliberating Skare’s punishment
jurors asked the court if Skare had served time for the case
Jurors also wanted to know if Skare’s time served would count towards her sentence
Judge Kristina Escalona did not answer the question
telling jurors they had all the law needed to make their decision
The same jury took two hours to find Skare guilty on Thursday
The state called in three witnesses Thursday afternoon to give jurors a better picture of how Derouen’s death impacted his family
She testified that Derouen would accompany her on hospital visits while his stepfather was being treated for cancer
“He made sure that I was good,” Davis said
testified about the loss’s effect on their health
“I’m truly devastated,” Lenard Derouen testified
Joia Derouen took the stand for the third time during the trial
He was a foodie -- he loved to eat,” she said
Joia Deroen told jurors she felt like she was Martell Derouen’s protector
“I do have some type of hurt in my heart because I feel like if [Martell and I] would have never broken up
this would have never happened,” she testified
The defense did not ask any of Martell Derouen’s family members any questions during this phase
During the hour-long closing arguments on Thursday
the jury heard the state’s final push to try to convince them to find her guilty of the higher murder charge
Prosecutor Ashley Jones attempted to poke holes in Skare’s testimony
telling jurors they would have to believe Skare to find her guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter
“Has she given you a reason to believe her?” asked Jones
Jones argued that Skare was not afraid, refuting Skare’s testimony on Wednesday afternoon.
“The defendant knew exactly what she was doing,” said Jones
“[Skare] was banging on the door to get Martell to come and deal with her
Skare’s defense attorneys argued that she did not intend to hurt or kill Derouen
Martell was killed that night,” said defense attorney Valarie Hedlund
Hedlund said the shooting was traumatic for Skare
showing jurors pictures of the injuries Skare said she got from her fight with Derouen the night of the shooting
prosecutor Chris Ramos showed the pictures of Skare’s injuries
He told jurors there was no DNA evidence showing Derouen had scratched Skare
Ramos brought up Skare’s previous testimony, where she admitted to using the name of Derouen’s wife, Joia, in a 911 call.
she’s implicating Joia in Martell’s death,” Ramos argued
You can watch the trial on KSAT.com, KSAT Plus and KSAT’s YouTube channel
See live tweets below from court reporter Erica Hernandez
For background on the case watch the ‘Open Court’ episode below
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Erica Hernandez is an Emmy award-winning journalist with 15 years of experience in the broadcast news business
Erica has covered a wide array of stories all over Central and South Texas
She's currently the court reporter and cohost of the podcast Texas Crime Stories
Misael started at KSAT-TV as a photojournalist in 1987
SAN ANTONIO – A murder case involving two aspiring musicians is heading to trial
a San Antonio rapper who went by the name of Kordone was found dead at his apartment at The Towers complex in the 16700 block of La Cantera Parkway on Jan
Derouen was found with a gunshot wound and it appeared the bullet had gone through his front door
Derouen was a known San Antonio rapper and was related to singing sensation Beyoncé
It didn’t take long for police to name their suspect
which was a 21-year-old woman named Sasha Skare
Skare also an aspiring singer had been dating Darouen
Skare at the time of the murder already had a pending case in Travis County
She was on bond and charged with aggravated robbery after an apparent drug deal that ended in gunfire and left her boyfriend dead
According to the arrest affidavit surveillance footage from the apartment complex put Skare at the scene
Moments after the shooting Skare was seen walking along the hallway
a plea deal of 20 years was offered to Skare on Aug
25 but she declined the deal and is now heading for trial
a jury will be picked and testimony is expected to begin tomorrow
KSAT 12 will livestream this trial gavel to gavel. You can watch the trial on KSAT.com, KSAT Plus and KSAT’s YouTube channel
2021 at Mayo Clinic- Methodist Campus in Rochester
1947 to Donald and Grace (Schonsby) Boland
She married Gerald Skare and the two later divorced
Myra worked at Mayo Clinic working in data entry and billing
and she also worked part-time at JCPenney and Winona Healthcare
and would make blankets for all of her loved ones
She also enjoyed baking and mini marathons
She especially loved dancing and found the perfect dance partner in the arms of Ron Schroeder
Myra was a very hardworking woman who always put everyone else before herself
Myra is survived by her significant other Ronald Schroeder
brothers Butch (Carla) Boland of El Paso
Funeral services for Myra will be held for family and close friends on Friday
2021 at Hindt Funeral Home in Spring Valley
Burial will take place at Millet Cemetery in rural Spring Valley
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ICCT’s Senior Research Fellow Kacper Rekawek sat down with Eric Skare of the University of Oslo and author of “Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion” to discuss the group in the context of the current Israel-Palestine conflict
You are THE expert on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
a little-known terrorist group mainly operating out of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
How is it possible that there is space for another radical Islamist outfit when Hamas is supposedly the all-controlling entity in Gaza
we have to understand why PIJ was founded in 1981 and has been engaged in armed struggle from 1984 onwards
PIJ targeted Israelis five years before Hamas did the same in 1989
violence was what distinguished them from the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood
I think it's very important to understand that PIJ was always a historical product of a very specific stage in Palestinian history because the fact was that if you were a Palestinian in the in Gaza Strip in the 1980s
and you wanted to carry out or participate in the armed struggle against the Israeli occupation
there was no viable organisational alternatives for you to join
You technically had the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its factions that were politically and ideologically or militarily irrelevant in the Gaza Strip in the 1980s
particularly after the evacuation from Beirut in 1982 to Tunisia
the founding fathers of the PIJ were also fed up with what they perceived as the compromises of the PLO
the point of no return was the adoption of the 10-point programme of the PLO in 1974 when it opened up to the possibility of using other means
to liberate the occupied Palestinian territories
opened up for the possibility of negotiating with the State of Israel
and opened up for the possibility for an only partial liberation of historical Palestinian land
This was in many respects the prelude to the Oslo Agreement in the 1990s
the proto PIJ leaders ask the very Leninist question of “what is to be done?” Still
violence was extremely controversial in Gaza at the time
but they argued that the Islamic movement should not just participate
That was not the view of the Muslim Brotherhood
and this led to altercations and fistfights in the mosques between the proponents of the two views
changed once Hamas emerged and started its violence
and its relations with the PIJ become more cordial with the two organisations signing the Charter of Brotherhood and Cooperation in 1992
which formally ended the dispute between the two
although competition between Hamas and PIJ has been there since
Palestinian Islamic Jihad – that implies that this would be the more radical faction
PIJ sounds far scarier than Islamic resistance movement (Hamas)
former secular nationalist militants: members of Fatah
the early members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
early members even of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
Although they were swayed by the religious wave in the region
and particularly with the Iranian Revolution in 1979
they kept much of the secular analysis of the conflict
What mattered to them was not creedal purity
they didn't care about the correct political behaviour
what mattered for PIJ was armed struggle against Israel
not bother upholding community values (hisba) or engage in proselytization the way Hamas did
PIJ did not care what clothes you are wearing
whether unmarried couples held hands in the Gaza Strip
That was quite different from Hamas which for example
firebombed stores selling alcohol or protested against cinemas in Gaza
PIJ is perceived as a moderate player by Palestinians
And PIJ never had that kind of infighting with Hamas or Fatah as you saw in 2007
PIJ focus very much on factional unity against Israel and on regional creedal unity against Western colonialism
It wants to keep Palestine outside of the sectarianism in the Middle East
PIJ has never had the ambition of being a mass movement
It has instead perceived its own role as being an armed vanguard in the struggle
When I interviewed PIJ leader Anwar Abu Taha he noted that the difference between Hamas and PIJ is that Hamas is a political movement engaging in the military field
while PIJ is a military movement engaging in the political field
KR: So PIJ is apolitical whereas Hamas is not
When you read the political theory of Hamas
it is obvious that it envisions an Islamic
and preserving perceived Islamic values from the top down
has always been far more suspicious of the state which will always turn
A weak state apparatus kept in check by a viable civic society
would thus be the responsibility of the latter
but once you have a free Palestinian state
They were against electoral participation in 1996 under Oslo and were critical of Hamas for participating in those in 2006
in the 1990s we had one camp of resistance with PIJ and Hamas together
and we had the forces of compromise to which the latter now also belongs.” Bear in mind
but rather based on real political considerations and also the democratic deficiencies of the Palestinian National Authority
PIJ released a document of principles and yes
it says that only jihad can liberate Palestine
but it is also based on an understanding of international law and rights and precedents made by other resistance movements
KR: So in this sense PIJ are anti-colonial
they see themselves as resisting colonialism
They explicitly call Israel a colonial settler entity
Israel is only the extended arm of Western colonial interests in order to preserve Western economic
is an oxymoron for the movement as it equals the continued subjugation and dependency not just to the Palestinians
Israel thus has to be abolished in order to obtain true independence for the entire global south
they do not envision the creation of a Caliphate and operate with a clear territorial definition of Palestine as PIJ is a Palestinian nationalist movement
in the sense that it completely refuses any negotiations with the state of Israel
It is only armed struggle that can liberate not just the occupied Palestinian territories
but the entire historical Palestine from the river to the sea
the abolition of Israel will not just commence the Islamization of Palestine
PIJ pretty much turned Hamas’ logic on its head
Instead of Islamization for liberation as Hamas stresses
PIJ does not interpret religion to decide strategy
it takes a strategic choice and religion is only subsequently interpreted to legitimize that strategy
the PIJ has been described as an Iranian proxy or a puppet
ES: The first people who describe them that way was the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood - “Shias in disguise,” “Iranian lap dogs,” etc.
which tried to slander an annoying competitor in Gaza during the great dispute about armed struggle and the Palestinian Islamic movement’s role
PIJ view the Iranian Revolution as a huge source of inspiration
as it was one of the greatest examples of a people
and they were the people dealing a blow to Western imperialism with one of the greatest allies of Israel -the US - in the Middle East
KR: How was the link between PIJ and Iran made and how did this evolve
ES: The leadership of PIJ was imprisoned from the mid-1980s and then were deported to Lebanon by the end of the 1980s
It was in Lebanon that they had meetings with Iranian officials in the Iranian embassy in Beirut
PIJ started receiving training in the camps of Hezbollah
particularly with the deportation of 415 Palestinian Islamists
mostly from Hamas to the Lebanese Marj al-Zuhur in 1992
PIJ’s relationship with Iran has always made it be portrayed as an Iranian proxy
very careful and very cautious that Iran does not infringe its own autonomy
When PIJ suffered financial turmoil in the mid-1990s
the PIJ leadership even discussed borrowing $250,000 and $500,000 from Hamas out of fear that PIJ members would succumb to Iranian pressure due to the economic difficulties and because Iran threatened to intervene because of the lack of financial control in the movement
there was a fallout between PIJ and Iran in 2015 because the latter demanded an end to the former’s neutrality in the Syrian civil war
and that obviously put a strain on the relationship
Iran is their main sponsor and PIJ has grown de facto dependent on Iranian aid given that it has been unable to diversify its sources of income
which necessarily limits PIJ’s political maneuverability
PIJ is also of limited use to Iran as it views the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as bound within the Palestinian territory
It's not an international organisation which has an interest in targeting international targets
who have targeted a Jewish community center in Argentina in 1994
or attacked a bus with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in 2012
KR: PIJ has lived under Hamas rule in Gaza for the last 16 years
What kind of an experience has this been for them
there were more or less genuine attempts to merge the two organisations throughout the 1990s
because PIJ viewed Hamas as a late-comer to the Intifada who was harvesting the fruits of PIJ’s military efforts since 1984
Hamas has always been arrogant in the way that it considered PIJ a splinter group that should be reunited with its mother organization
So they have coexisted but competition has persisted
a tape was leaked showing Hamas’ shura council member Fathi Hamad slandering PIJ calling them Shias
and slamming PIJ for attempting to outmuscle Hamas
Hamad even accused them of attempting to dress up Hamas terrorist attacks as their own to boost its own standing
The tape was symptomatic of the annoyance in Hamas that PIJ was presented as equally important in the press during the Second Intifada although Hamas was the far bigger organization
continued after 2007 when Hamas took over Gaza
Hamas has had to walk a far more delicate line between maintaining its ethos (the ethos of being a resistance movement)
where the majority of this legitimacy came from
and now also having to be a responsible governing actor
asked the other Palestinian armed factions
already in 2007 not to send rockets into Israel because Hamas knew it would mean closed border crossings with no medicine
This was definitely a win-win situation for PIJ
While Hamas claimed it sought political power to protect the resistance
many Palestinians began perceiving Hamas as a movement using the resistance to protect political power
which was unencumbered by the inconvenient responsibility of governance
could continue to emphasise the need for an armed struggle
not just for ending the siege of Gaza but to liberate the whole of Palestine
the Islamic Jihad could portray itself as the continued principal defenders of Palestinian rights
PIJ was very happy to fill the void left by Hamas in the armed struggle from Gaza
That schism led to clashes between the two
which meant that Iran cut much of Hamas’s funding and redirected its funding to the PIJ
you see PIJ grow bigger - it grows stronger
it grows more professional with more advanced weaponry
PIJ also saw a new wave of members from Hamas and Fatah because of the infighting in 2007
after another round of fighting with Israel
Egypt negotiated a ceasefire without involving Hamas in the negotiations
That was a huge source of annoyance for Hamas
a complete sidelining of the supposed rulers of Gaza which led to more tensions
PIJ had grown to such an extent that it could wage a solo war against Israel
I think that the last 16 years have been incredibly kind to Islamic Jihad
it has benefited vastly from the governance of Hamas as it has filled the void
in the light of 7 October attacks on Israel
ES: Many people now talk about the potential destruction of Hamas
I would be more concerned about the future of the PIJ because we now are most likely seeing Hamas returning to its roots as an underground clandestine movement
but also falling back on the social infrastructure it has effectively been constructing in Gaza since the 1970s
it is now fully invested in fighting Israel and thus
its new posture undermines that of the PIJ
No longer is PIJ the only faction waging war on Israel
Because PIJ has fewer strings to play on than Hamas – which has its political wing and its social services – we know that PIJ traditionally is caught in a state of asphyxiation in periods of heavy Israeli counterinsurgency
During the 1990s when most of its militants were killed
the activity of PIJ was almost non-existent
Only the Second Intifada allowed for their resurgence
a similar dynamic on the ground might be developing
and Islamic Jihad could be hit far harder than Hamas by this war
KR: What is the situation on the ground right now for PIJ
ES: When we read the interviews with PIJ and its militants
there's no smoking gun connecting PIJ to the planning of these attacks
They joined the attacks shortly after the fighting erupted and according to PIJ
Hamas informed them about the attack a couple of hours before it started
they immediately joined and also sent rockets
They have approximately 30 hostages in Gaza if reports are correct
the politicians of the PIJ have given full support to Hamas
This is not really a surprise when you consider that the PIJ is about the struggle
the only thing that can liberate Palestine in their view
so it wants the other factions to join the fighting
it is now obvious that there is coordination
but also Hezbollah in Iran about what’s going to happen
There are reports of PIJ participating in the fighting against the ground against Israeli ground forces and they also inflicted casualties on the Israeli forces
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It was a crime that shocked many; an aspiring rapper and veteran Martel Derouen killed with a single gunshot
The person caught, literally holding the gun in hand was a woman named Sasha Skare
after a couple of days of not answering phone calls and texts
San Antonio police were dispatched to The Towers complex off La Cantera Parkway to do a welfare check on 34-year-old Martell Derouen
they noticed a suspicious hole near the peephole
After getting staff at the complex to help
and right behind it lay Derouen’s body in a pool of blood
police discovered several key pieces of evidence; a 911 call and a doorbell camera video
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A video was also collected from one of Derouen’s neighbors
walking down the hallway looking at her phone
police put her photo out to the media and the search was on
she was caught and booked at the Bexar County jail
Days leading up to her trial more than two years later
a 20-year plea deal was offered to Skare but she declined it
A jury was picked and testimony was set to begin on August 29
The first person to take the stand was Derouen’s wife
She talked about her relationship with Derouen
and how they got married in 2007 and eventually moved to San Antonio
as he wanted to pursue a music career and she wanted to settle down and have a family
We weren’t being intimate or anything like that we were more so just friends,” Joia said
“Originally we met after she wanted to pursue music
Martell met her at a video shoot and then he said ‘Oh
she’s interested in music you know I want to help her out’,” Joia said
Joia later spoke about going to Derouen’s apartment when she couldn’t reach him and when she got there
She called Derouen’s mom and she felt something bad had happened
“I was just listening to his mom crying on the phone
I didn’t want to believe it until somebody actually told me this is what happened,” Joia said
Inside Derouen’s apartment was some broken glass
Skare’s bag was sitting on the ground and her shoes were nearby
An empty gun box was also found in the apartment
it appeared to investigators some kind of struggle or scuffle had occurred
Nearby neighbors testified hearing two people arguing inside
and the neighbor who lived across the hall said she saw Skare banging on the door but never heard a gunshot
Another neighbor thought he heard the gunshot but ended up thinking it was the fireworks that run every night at the nearby Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme park
took the stand he said that it appeared the two were arguing and at some point
Skare took Deruen’s gun and he threw her out
The detective explained that because she had left all her stuff inside
she started banging on the door and that when he peeped to look out
And it caused the death of the defendant,” Detective Saiz said
the defense had one witness to call up and that was Sasha Skare
Skare was very soft-spoken and seemingly calm
She talked about meeting Derouen when she was 17
and how they began collaborating in music together
“We started becoming real close friends after about two years,” Skare said
she said that their relationship evolved and turned sexual about six months before he was killed
The questions then turned to the night the shooting took place
Skare said Derouen picked her up and they went back to his place
she said she had some drinks and both were smoking marijuana
Skare said everything changed after she got a phone call from a photographer
And I was in the kitchen talking,” Skare said
I was scrolling on my phone and he came into the room and turned the lights on He just asked me to leave his apartment
He asked me to leave and I just asked him why
He was upset because he felt like I was on the phone with another man.”
She explained the argument got more physical
“I snatched my stuff from him and that’s pretty much when it started,” Skare said
And what felt like a long time he was hitting me
choking me until the point I couldn’t’ breathe.”
She said she saw the gun and took it as a way to get out
“After I grabbed I told him don’t touch me,” she said
“I told him don’t touch me and I started backing up out of the bedroom
I started grabbing dishes out of the cabinet and throwing it in between us.”
“Where you in fear of Martell?” the lawyer asked
Skare said she was able to get out of the apartment but all of her stuff stayed inside she said
“I was banging on the door with the gun,” Skare said
“Was he yelling screaming or making any kind of noise,” the lawyer asked
“At some point was a shot fired,” the lawyer said
“As I was knocking on the door I just threw the gun up and it shot.”
“Did you have any idea he was standing behind that door,” the lawyer asked
“What was your intent when that gun fired?”
“My intent was just to get his attention,” Skare said through tears
Sasha also admitted to making the 911 call and throwing the gun in a dumpster
the state challenged her version of events especially when she said she had to jump over a counter to get away from Derouen
the jury was able to deliberate and in just over two hours
There was no reaction from Skare as her sentence was handed down
Derouen’s family members were elated and satisfied with the sentence
they would now get the chance to face Skare
Derouen’s sister Kami gave a powerful impact statement
“Sasha the pain and agony you brought upon my family in unbearable,” Kami Derouen said
“You deserve this and its time for you to pay
if you have any because you’ve made your bed and now its time to lay in it.”
Skare has been transferred to a prison in Dayton
She will become eligible for parole in 2048
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Some 300 workers are reportedly affected at facilities in Vejen and Århus
Skare Meat Packers has reportedly applied for bankruptcy in a court in Denmark after a number of retailers halted orders due to a lack of meat traceability
A representative for the NNF food workers’ union in Denmark told Just Food that employees of Skare Meat Packers were ordered to stay at home yesterday (1 February)
a day that coincided with a deadline for the Vejen-headquartered company to provide documentation confirming the traceability of its meat
That requirement was set down last month by The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA)
following an unannounced inspection of the Vejen processing facility in December
Two inspections took place in December and the DVFA found Italian meat was labelled as being sourced from Germany
one of three offences for which Skare Meat Packers was reported to the police for investigation
The food-safety authority also discovered various cuts of meat dating as far back as 2010
DVFA chief Michael Rosenmark informed Just Food last month it was not an offence for 12-year-old animal protein to be sold in Denmark
The NNF representative said Skare Meat Packers has filed its bankruptcy request in a court in the town of Esberg located on the Jutland peninsula
The company’s Vejen processing plant is also situated in Jutland
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the NNF spokesperson confirmed 300 workers are affected
including around 200 packers and administrative staff at the Vejen site and more at a slaughterhouse in Århus
Just Food has reached out to Skare Meat Packers for comment
said via a separate statement that the union is “trying to sort out the situation so that we can advise our members as best as possible.”
there are efforts underway to try to save all or parts of Skare Meat
and they are therefore currently in a bit of a grey area
As long as the members are formally employed by the company
they must have some form of security for payment – even if they are on standby.”
Denmark’s online finance publication – finans.dk – reported a total of seven companies under the Skare Group have filed for bankruptcy: Skare Meat Packers
Skare Holding is the group entity overseeing the sale of fresh and frozen meat to retail and wholesalers
confirmed to Just Food last month that it had suspended deliveries from Skare Meat Packers
It is also understood the discount chain Rema 1000 has withdrawn orders as well
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SAN ANTONIO – After just over two hours of deliberations
a Bexar County jury on Thursday found Sasha Skare guilty of murder
She’s convicted of fatally shooting Martell Derouen
The punishment phase started Thursday afternoon and will resume at 9 a.m
Skare faces a possible maximum punishment of up to life in prison
According to her arrest affidavit
Skare was in a relationship with Derouen at the time of his death
Investigators believe they got into an argument
and Skare allegedly shot Derouen through the front door of his apartment on Jan
surveillance footage from the apartment complex put Skare at the scene
After a 35-second opening argument made by the defense on Wednesday, jurors heard directly from Skare
The defendant broke down during her testimony
“My intent was just to get his attention,” Skare said as she wiped away tears
and opening arguments are scheduled for Thursday morning
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SAN ANTONIO – Jurors in the Sasha Skare trial heard a 911 call in court on Tuesday — but a witness testified the caller was not who she claimed to be
The recording is one of several key pieces of evidence prosecutors presented on the first day of Skare’s trial
She’s accused of fatally shooting Martell Derouen
The woman on the 911 call said she was locked out of her apartment and believed her husband was hurt
he’s not responding there’s a hole in the door,” answered the woman
The woman identified herself as Joai Derouen
But Joai Derouen said in court Tuesday that it wasn’t her voice on the call — it was Skare’s
“She pronounced my name wrong,” said Derouen
The Derouens were separated for a few years
She testified that she learned Skare and her husband were involved after his death
On Jan. 26, 2021, San Antonio police officers responded to Martell Derouen’s apartment for a welfare call
where they found him dead inside his apartment in the 16700 block of La Cantera Parkway
Investigators believe he got into an argument with Skare
who shot Martell Derouen through the front door of the apartment four days earlier
“He fell backwards as he was looking through the peephole,” said Det
Daniel Molina with the San Antonio Police Department
Skare was arrested one week after San Antonio police say she shot and killed Martell Derouen.
Jurors also heard from the victim’s neighbors
One neighbor’s surveillance camera caught a woman walking down the hallway barefoot
Joai Derouen was brought back into the courtroom
where she watched the video and identified the barefoot woman as Skare
Prosecutors also showed jurors graphic photos inside the crime scene
The crime scene investigator described seeing broken plates on the floor and counter of the kitchen and what appeared to be a broken bed
Skare was offered a plea deal but turned it down on August 25
The defense did not make opening statements on the first day of the trial
Testimony continues Wednesday morning and KSAT will stream it live
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This isn’t her first time in the KSAT newsroom– the San Antonio native spent the summer of 2017 as an intern
earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Texas
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SAN ANTONIO -Now that police have arrested Martell DeRouen's accused killer
we are learning more about the victim's relationship with the young woman police say murdered him
was arrested Saturday after investigators say she allegedly shot and killed Martell inside The Towers Apartments along La Cantera Parkway back in late January
"He released a mixtape called Trunk Bang
and he wanted some girls for a video shoot and he honestly just met her online," said Joia DeRouen
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was related to Beyoncé by her grandmother Agnes DeRouen
I know that people other than me would try to use that to get some type of fame
kind of like a latch on type person or a coattail rider is what he would say I'm not
Joia described Martell as the hard-working type with an ear for music that everyone loved
She added that although she and Martell were separated
"Regardless of the fact that we were separated
we still were like best friends," Joia said
it happened once before where he hadn't responded to me or his family
So that in the back of our mind is what we were thinking,"
Joia also found that Martell's step-mother was struggling to contact him
"He was supposed to have a show that he was headlining on Saturday but he didn't post anything about it," Joia said
we really got concerned and his step-mom was like
I'm going to call a wellness check."
Joia said around 1 o'clock on Tuesday
26 she drove to Martell's apartment complex to find out what was going on
the place was just surrounded by police officers
they wouldn't tell me about what was going on," Joia said
"They were only giving me little bits and pieces."
According to Skare's arrest affidavit
an officer was sent to Martell's apartment when the welfare check was called
the officer noticed a bullet hole in Martell's front door
Court documents show the officer tried to get a response but eventually had to ask management at the complex for help getting inside
The officer entered the apartment and saw Martell lying on the floor with a gunshot wound
He's self-taught with everything that he does
to have this certificate means a lot to me."
homicide detectives arrived at the complex and found evidence that a fight had taken place inside Martell's apartment
Officers said there was evidence that suggested a gun was taken from the bedroom or closet and it was clear someone fired a gun outside the apartment and into the front door near the peephole while Martell stood on the other side
Court documents also show investigators found surveillance video of a woman they believed was Skare walking around the apartment complex shortly after shots were fired
A witness later described Skare as the person who was banging on Martell's door
Investigators gathered more video of Skare walking the complex hallways near Martell's apartment with a cell phone in one hand and a gun in the other
Officers did more research and found someone placed a call to 911 on Friday
Police said the caller claimed to be Martell's wife but the phone number did not belong to Joia and officers believed the person on the other line had a different voice than Joia
The caller said she was locked out of her apartment and worried her husband
police later discovered this caller was Skare after she slipped up and gave her last known address on O'Connor Road instead of Martell's address
or I don't know what was going through her head
I'm not taking responsibility for this and when she tried to call the police
she told them that this is his wife," Joia said
Joia added she was disgusted after hearing Skare had done this
"So not only do you commit this horrible crime
but then you try to blame it on someone else because you're a coward
and you know you that you were wrong," Joia said
Skare is facing first-degree felony charges for murder
"I'm going to make sure that for the crime with Martell
"No matter if I have to be at every court date
I want people to know what type of person she really is."
said the deal would strengthen its “innovative power in northern Europe”
Danish Crown has bought a factory site from Skare meat packers in an “unexpected opportunity” to expand its domestic footprint
includes a 120,000sq metre site in Vejen in southern Denmark
The ownership of the site will be transferred from director Kurt Skare on 1 April
It comes as Skare reportedly filed for bankruptcy in February
affecting 300 workers at the Vejen facility and another in Århus
That followed an unannounced inspection of the Vejen processing facility in December
Danish Crown group production director Søren F
Eriksen said: “The buildings came up for sale and it opened some unexpected opportunities for us because we were faced with having to build a new building in Denmark and
not only would it be more expensive for us
it would also have a significantly longer time horizon
so we quickly agreed with the previous owner.”
Neither production equipment nor inventory are part of the acquisition as they do not match the group’s “future needs”
It did not clarify what the site will be used for when asked by Just Food
“We are not ready to talk about what type of production we will have in the buildings yet,” Eriksen said
“It may take up to a year before we are ready to start production in Vejen
so it is also too early to say anything about how many employees we will need.”
“We have a clear goal of being able to offer our customers in Northern Europe more new products
and we have long had a strategy to make a stronger mark on
“The purchase of the buildings also opens other opportunities for us
so we will therefore spend the coming months making a detailed plan.”
Meanwhile, in Germany, Danish Crown is closing a 200-employee facility
citing declining numbers of slaughtered animals and decreasing consumption of pork
The co-operative said it is “adjusting its approach” to the German market in order to improve earnings
including the closure of a deboning facility in Boizenburg
ROCHESTER — When it comes to musculoskeletal injuries
sometimes the best treatment course involves getting back to the basics of movement
"We're all born with these movement patterns
and they have to to be able to move well," said Nate Skare
reconnecting your brain to the muscles to recruit the muscles in the proper way."
has some combination of chiropractic adjustments and then some soft tissue or myofascial release," Skare said
"And there's a couple of techniques that I've had a lot of training and experience with that no one else in Rochester does."
While Skare's practice has only been open since May
he's no stranger to Southeast Minnesota and sports injury
Skare was a three-sport high school athlete and played football at Upper Iowa University
He sustained some "unique and weird sports injuries" during high school
"A chiropractor kind of figured out what was going on ..
"So that's what led me to start thinking along those lines (for my career)."
After receiving his chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington
setting up his practice — with an emphasis on integrative care — in his hometown area "just felt like the right decision."
Just because you have low back pain doesn't mean that your low back is what's causing pain — we got to figure out why you're having low back pain."
In addition to dynamic neuromuscular stabilization and chiropractic adjustments
Skare's treatment credentials also include dry needling
a therapy adjacent to acupuncture that targets muscle trigger points
While this integrative approach to chiropractic care and physical therapy is becoming more common among providers
Skare said the hardest part of starting his own practice is getting past the assumption that he only provides adjustments
"It allows you to have more tools in your toolbox
to help people get better," Skare said of multidisciplinary treatment
"Because not everyone needs an adjustment."
Skare Spine & Performance is a one-man shop
Skare said he aims to hire an office manager
he said he hopes to grow the practice by bringing other chiropractors under the Skare Spine & Performance umbrella
or you're someone who (says) 'I just want to be able to walk and play with my grandkids again,' or anything in between
that's where we can really personalize care and rehab to you," Skare said
Austin police are searching for a woman linked to a North Austin drug deal that left one man dead last month
to the 6600 block of North Lamar Boulevard after a woman reported her boyfriend had been shot
They found 21-year-old Andrew Bass bleeding inside a gray Kia Rio at Jeff’s Auto Body Repair and 20-year-old Sasha Skare on the phone
Austin-Travis County EMS medics performed CPR on Bass
who had a gunshot wound on the left side of his chest
a 911 caller reported that a man showed up at the Passionate Spirits liquor store at 6808 N
He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center with wounds in his left leg and chest
who said Bass wanted to buy marijuana from a person she did not know in the parking lot of Nugent Grocery at 808 Justin Lane
she heard gunshots and found Bass wrestling with another man
Bass told her to “get the gun out of the other guy’s hand,” the affidavit says
Skare said she grabbed the gun and a bag of marijuana from the man and put them inside the Kia
and then helped Bass into the backseat of the vehicle and drove away
She called 911 when she realized she did not know how to get to a hospital
“(Skare) was adamant that the whole deal had been set up by Bass and she was just tagging along and had no idea who they had met with or who the suspect was,” the affidavit says
Detectives interviewed the other man who was shot while he was still in the hospital
The man first told police he met Skare in a parking lot by Mehl’s Motel
But police told the man they knew blood was found in his apartment
He said he’d known Skare since 2018 and they hung out about every three months
She asked him over social media if he wanted to meet up that day to buy marijuana
Detectives found messages from Skare to the man on his Instagram going back to October
but then Bass pulled a gun on him and told him not to move
As the man reached for his gun on the couch
he said he heard a lot of gunshots and wasn’t sure who fired first
The two men ended up wrestling while holding the guns
He believes Skare was able to get the gun out of his hand before the pair left his apartment
The man staggered out of his apartment and went to a nearby store for help
Police found evidence in the man’s apartment that matched his story
Skare has been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon
She was not in the Travis County Jail Friday morning
Police are offering up to $1,000 for information that leads to her arrest
Tips can be made to police at 512-477-3588 or 512-974-5210
Anonymous tips also can made to Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477
MN and Graduated from Gary High School in 1957
Following high school Aaron served in the United States Air Force
Sheryl preceded Aaron in death on November 30th
Brian Lisovskis (Laura) and granddaughters Rachel and Renee Lisovskis of Rochester
Aaron and Sheryl were horse trainers and breeders of paint horses
Aaron will be remembered for his knowledge of and experience with horsemanship
For nearly 30 years Aaron and Sheryl had an exciting life as professionals in the paint horse industry
They managed several different horse barns performing the training
and raising of paint horses and becoming leaders in the Southern Minnesota paint horse business
Aaron and Sheryl had 28 Paint Horse Champions across 5 States
Showing horses in 5 States led Aaron and Sheryl to many wonderful travel adventures
and created friendships throughout the paint horse industry
Aaron was proud of his school bus driving career in Jackson
MN and he was always ready to belt out a yodel for the kids (or anywhere for that matter)
Aaron will be remembered for his playful sense of humor and telling a great Norwegian joke with a wink and a smile
A memorial service will be held at Willows and Waters
MN 55901 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm on Thursday December 8th
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SAN ANTONIO – A woman being sought by San Antonio police on a murder charge is also suspected of playing a role in a deadly 2019 shooting that occurred in Austin
San Antonio police confirmed Sasha Skare, 21, is the murder suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting death of Martell Derouen
dead inside his apartment at The Towers complex in the 16700 block of La Cantera Parkway
Officers were called to conduct a welfare check on Derouen after a woman told them she hadn’t heard from him in days
Travis County records show that Skare is also indicted on charges of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon in a November 2019 incident
Austin police believe Skare and her boyfriend, Andrew Bass, set up a meeting to rob a drug dealer. The robbery resulted in an exchange of gunfire that killed Bass and wounded the other man, according to KXAN
But investigators later developed evidence that showed Skare knew the dealer and reached out to him to schedule the meet-up
Austin police put out an advisory searching for Skare
where she was arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and the Converse Police Department in December of 2019
Travis County court records show Skare was released on bond from jail on Jan 6
It’s unclear what the conditions of the bond were or how much her bail was
Skare also appears to be an aspiring singer and rapper
According to The Source Magazine
Skare is a San Antonio native who first began rapping and singing in 2018
roughly a month before the shooting of Derouen
she was interviewed in an episode of White Noise
On an Instagram account that appears to belong to Skare
several people have commented on her photos in recent days
Anyone with information on Skare’s location can call SAPD at 210-207-7635
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Since their inception, Iranian-Palestinian relations have functioned as a marriage of convenience based on Iran’s pursuit of security and the Palestinian need for state sponsorship. Today, Iran provides support to a number of Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) most notably
Yet these groups are not puppets and their relationship with Tehran is constantly evolving
The Hamas-led attacks against Israel on 7 October reflected their own independent calculations
Although they could not have happened without the provision of long-term Iranian support
the attacks likely came as an unwelcome surprise for Tehran
which over the last two months has avoided giving Palestinian groups full-throated support
Whether Hamas and PIJ remain tightly aligned with Iran
will depend on the outcome of the war in Gaza and wider dynamics in the Middle East’s fluctuating geopolitics
Iran’s support for the Palestinian cause has always been in part ideological
given Jerusalem’s religious significance for Muslims
Iran’s 1979 constitution affirmed its duty to export the Iranian revolution to assist “the dispossessed” around the world
But realpolitik interests have largely taken over since the late 1980s
Iran gradually came to support Palestinian armed groups as an integral part of its regional security policy to contain and preoccupy Israel which
it has long perceived as the greatest threat to its security and domestic stability
a group’s Islamic credentials (or lack thereof) mattered less than its willingness to confront Israel
The gradual moderation of PLO positions during the 1980s – opening back-channel negotiations with Israel, accepting territorial partition of historical Palestine, and renouncing armed violence – was one factor contributing to a rupture in relations. Iran has continued to provide some support to PLO members such as the Marxist-Leninist PFLP
in order to maintain its regional security paradigm it shifted the bulk of its support towards Palestinian Islamist groups given the political and military irrelevance of the far smaller Marxist-Leninist groups in the occupied territories
then we supply the money and arms to the occupied territories and support the families of our people.”
It is unlikely that the 7 October attacks could have happened without Iran’s decades-long support
Other Iranian-backed groups in Gaza have likely also benefited from these arrangements
It is unlikely that the 7 October attacks could have happened without this decades-long support
The relationship between Sunni Hamas and PIJ and Shia Iran has always been a marriage of convenience produced by shared interests on the ground rather than ideological affinity with Tehran’s political interpretation of Islam
the groups are constantly adjusting their external relations according to their own strategic calculations
This was most evident in the wake of the Arab uprisings
which Iran sponsored in an attempt to replace Hamas and PIJ with a more pliant proxy
and that to target Yemen was equal to targeting the Palestinian cause.”
Personal ideological beliefs may also have bolstered the relationship between PIJ and Iran. The group’s leader since 2018, Ziyad al-Nakhala
appears to be closer to Iran than his predecessor
The renewal of relations may also have reflected the movement’s conclusions that there was no other alternative funding available to it
PIJ and Iran appear to have drawn even closer together
Over the past year Hamas too has sought to mend its ties with Iran. This was first signalled by the visit of Khalil al-Hayya
This effectively ended nearly a decade of hostility between Hamas and the Syrian regime
demonstrating its return to the Iranian fold and the failure of its previous realignment
Hamas largely miscalculated when it bet on the Sunni axis
which witnessed the ascendance of the Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisa and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
But the political tide soon turned against political Islam following the ousting of Egypt’s Islamist president
to reinforce Egypt’s blockade on Gaza from July 2013 onwards made this short-lived reorientation politically and financially untenable for Hamas
Having received insufficient support from Arab capitals
Hamas was forced to turn back towards Damascus and Tehran to preserve its interests
and opening up for a two-state solution in its 2017 platform
were all made possible by the weakening of hardliners following the end of the second intifada
which eroded support within Hamas for armed violence
the positioning of Hamas and PIJ is constantly in flux
Their future orientation will depend in part on whether Arab and Western states can strengthen moderate voices in these groups who have long wanted to move away from Iran’s orbit by presenting a realistic political pathway towards Palestinian independence
Dr Erik Skare is a historian and researcher at the University of Oslo and an associate researcher at Sciences Po in Paris
He specialises on Palestinian history with a particular focus on religion and secular politics
[1] Jørgen Jensehaugen
“A Palestinian Window of Opportunity
the US and the Iranian Hostage Crisis,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 48:4 (2021)
[2] Erik Skare
A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith
and Revolution in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
[3] Muhammad Muslih
“The Foreign Policy of Hamas,” Council on Foreign Relations (1999)
[4] Skare
[5] Leila Seurat
[6] Khaled Hroub
Hamas: Political Thought and Ideology (Washington
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SAN ANTONIO – After a 35-second opening argument made by the defense on Wednesday, Bexar County jurors heard directly from Sasha Skare on the second day of her murder trial
BREAKING: Sasha Skare has taken the stand to testify in her own defense. #ksatnews pic.twitter.com/UhrWXDejwc
Skare breaks down on the stand, after he attny asked what her intent was after the gun fired. She said she did not mean to hurt Derouen"My intent was just to get his attention"#KSATnews pic.twitter.com/YP3krtxPrB
Skare revealed to jurors that she got the gun from a nightstand in Derouen’s room
Skare said she met Derouen after he messaged her on Instagram
asking her to be in one of his music videos
Skare said she worked with him to make flyers for shows and helped Derouen record his music
Skare said she and Derouen had a months-long sexual relationship
Skare told jurors that Derouen would pick her up from her home in Austin and bring her to his apartment in San Antonio
Skare said they were planning for upcoming shows
Skare testified that she made dinner for herself and Derouen and ate it while watching TV
She also said they were drinking and smoking marijuana that evening
Skare testified that she answered a FaceTime call from a photographer who she said was helping her with one of her next music videos
Skare testified that after the FaceTime call
she went and laid in the bed at Derouen’s apartment
and I just asked him why,” Skare said on the stand
Derouen and Skare got into a verbal argument
She testified that Derouen “was upset because he felt like I was on the phone with another man.”
Her attorney showed jurors crime scene photos of a broken bed
Skare said it broke because Derouen tackled her
choking me until the point where I couldn’t breathe,” she testified
showing a bruise under her eye and scratches on her neck
After grabbing the gun from Derouen’s nightstand
Skare said she ran out of the apartment barefoot
Skare testified that she borrowed a neighbor’s charger for her phone
then went back and banged on Derouen’s door with the gun in hand
Skare said she called 911 from a stairwell after the shot was fired, giving the operator a false name.
I wasn’t really in the right mind,” Skare testified
adding that she did not know if Derouen was hurt
A prosecutor asked Skare why she raised a gun in the first place
“Bring my gun back and get yo stuff,” Derouen wrote
Jurors also watched a cellphone video taken by a neighbor who lived below Derouen’s apartment
As the sound of yelling in the video played in the courtroom
Skare showed emotion for the first time as she began to cry
Both the state and defense rested their cases Wednesday afternoon
Closing arguments are set to begin Thursday
BREAKING: Sasha Skare has taken the stand to testify in her own defense. #ksatnews pic.twitter.com/UhrWXDejwc
Skare breaks down on the stand, after he attny asked what her intent was after the gun fired. She said she did not mean to hurt Derouen"My intent was just to get his attention"#KSATnews pic.twitter.com/YP3krtxPrB
Marshals said Sasha Skare was arrested Thursday in north San Antonio by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
Further details were not immediately available
Sasha Skare, 20, is wanted on a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Austin Police say she was involved in a shooting in North Austin on November 29th
"Police arrived on scene and found a male victim in the backseat of a vehicle who had received a gunshot wound to the chest
who later died there at the scene," said Deputy U.S
police got another call about a man with gunshot wounds a block away
Investigators later determined the two shootings were connected and that Skare had gone to an apartment to buy drugs
"That meeting was a planned meeting for Sasha Skare and this other individual who is now deceased to meet up and buy some marijuana," said Filla
Police say Skare took a gun from that apartment
which led to the aggravated robbery charge
"When the investigators were able to take a look at it
they saw that maybe her story wasn't matching up with what she initially said," said Filla
Sasha Skare is 5'5" and weighs 135 pounds. She's known to work in the adult entertainment industry in Austin. If you have any information about her whereabouts, contact the U.S. Marshals service at 1-800-336-0102 or visit usmarshals.gov/tips
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Texas (WOAI) — A woman who was accused of killing Beyonce’s cousin was sentenced to 55 years on Friday
The 186th district court confirmed Sasha Skare was sentenced to 55 years in the murder of aspiring San Antonio rapper, Martell Derouen
He was shot and killed back in January 2021 at his apartment in La Cantera
2019 at 12:10 am CT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Police had offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Sasha Skare
TX — The woman wanted by police in connection to a deadly North Austin shooting two weeks ago was captured Thursday outside in Bexar County near San Antonio
was taken into custody by the Special Operations Unit of the Converse Police Department at 3:30 p.m.
officer Erik Sanchez said in an email to Patch
Austin police last week sought help from the public in locating Skare following a shooting at an apartment along the 1003 block of Justin Lane on Nov
was pronounced dead at the scene at the scene despite medics' efforts at resuscitation
Police also accuse Skare of trying to rob a second man at gunpoint during a drug deal during which he was shot in the leg and chest
Previous story: Police Seek Woman Charged In Deadly North Austin Shooting
Police had offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Skare
Skare was transported to the Bexar County jail for magistration
She was located in northeast Bexar County after having fled from Austin after the shootings
Converse is 12 miles east of San Antonio and 62 miles south of Austin
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