Three of four people allegedly involved in the robbery and killing of a man and kidnapping of his girlfriend over a debt were arraigned Thursday in Clark County Superior Court.
Neil Allen Alway, 39, Ashley Lorraine Barry, 31, and Ashley L. Wideman, 23, all transients, entered not-guilty pleas to the filed charges. A fourth co-defendant, John Michael West, 43, also a transient, was not in court because his attorney was unavailable.
The two couples are accused in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Raymond C. Brandon, whose body was discovered April 27 — about a week after he had gone missing — in a Hockinson shed.
The group was lying in wait at a residence, 15308 N.E. 172nd Ave., southeast of Hockinson High School, where Brandon and his girlfriend, Allison Fields, 20, were known to frequent. During the chaotic confrontation, Brandon was beaten and fatally shot, and Fields was forced to stay with the group or risk being killed herself, according to probable cause affidavits filed in the case.
