Rod Ponton (rod.83rd@att.

net)
Add to contacts 9/06/13 To: Liz Parker Cc: kevin.83rd@att.net

Ms ParkerI will not release any statement that the case is going to a grand jury. I will not submit to a grand jury until I have all the information. I will keep you informed as to the status of the case. Please call with any questions. Rod Ponton

From: Liz Parker <lizparker8888@hotmail.com> To: "rod.83rd@att.net" <rod.83rd@att.net> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:32 PM Subject: Thank you for meeting with me

Thank you, Mr. Ponton, for meeting with me yesterday morning. I have many questions and other comments, but I want to first ask if you will be releasing any statement to the public that you are calling this grand jury. I am asking questions in the town regarding that night and getting names and contact information. I should be able to email a beginning list to you on Friday. Some of us have prepared summaries of conversations with Judge Guevara, Sheriff Dominguez, and others, and a timeline that lists what I told you Wednesday. We have prepared them as emails if you want me to forward them to you. I also have the draft resignation letter that Melaney emailed to me that night. I don't think I mentioned an important item yesterday in our meeting. Judge Guevara mentioned what sounded like several gunshots that were heard around the time of the train incident. I do not have a time that the train ran over Melaney, but I have heard from townspeople that it was about 12:25 that the train stopped. I heard what sounded like a gunshot that night and then another one shortly after. I looked at the clock on my computer and it was 12:42 when I heard the second shot, within a minute of the first one. I heard intermittent pops that lasted until 12:49. I looked at the clock at the time of the last shot. It was within a few minutes that John called me from the engine of the train. I told Judge Guevara that I thought they were the flares that were used at the site of the incident. She said no, that the sheriff said he was investigating gunshot sounds when the call came in for the train. I told her that didn't make sense because he should have already been on his way to or at the site by the time the first pops were heard. She said she didn't have exact times for when

everyone was notified. When I got there before 1:15, there was already a working site with flares, Border Patrol agents with flashlights, truck lights pointing east by the park. At least two, possibly more vehicles were present beside the train tracks. Deputy Sheriff Mitch Garcia came later during the morning and stayed where I was. And John Rayburn said another deputy was with him at the engine. Sheriff Dominguez told us and my son that he was the only sheriff on duty because all his deputies were in training at that time. - Liz Parker