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A Little Falls man ByronDavid Smith, 64, faced arraign-ment Monday, November 26, inthe shooting deaths of a pair of teenage cousins onThanksgiving Day and whose

bodies were found by policeFriday in the basement of theman’s home, north of Little Falls

Little Falls school officialsidentified the victims as cousinsHaile Kifer, 18, and NicholasBrady, 17.

Smith told police he shot the

two during a break-in, butauthorities said his actionsexceeded a reasonable self-defense.

About 200 people gatheredSunday night for a vigil at Little

Falls High School for Kifer andBrady. Mourners rememberedboth as athletic and friendly.

Morrison County deputies vis-ited Byron David Smith’s home

just north of Little Falls onFriday afternoon on a suspiciousactivity call, at which point, they

say, he immediately confessed toshooting two people the previousday around noon. Deputiesfound the bodies in the base-ment.

Smith’s brother said that his

brother was upset after theshootings and unsure how toreact.

“Put yourself in his shoesafter you shoot two people inyour basement,” Bruce Smith

History of Zion LutheranCemetery in Little Elk Township

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 Volume 97; Number 23

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All Academic Prairie Conference Football: Jackson Polak,yle Petermeier, Trent Johnson, not pictured Zach Lafreniere

David Smith, 64, Nicholas Brady, 17, and Haile Kifer, 18.

Thanksgiving shooting leavestwo dead, many questions

Prairie Conference012 Award Winners

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Pictured from left: Matthew Schettler, Chris Buhl, Eliezer Vigil, Dalton May, Reid Pearson, Mitchell Heid, Brad Dreher, Austin Butler, Kyle Petermeier, and Ryan Rickbeil. Not pictured: ZachLafreniere

Prairie Conference: Chris Buhl, Dalton May, Zach Lafreniere, Austin Butler All Conference Selections Honorable Mention: Brad Dreher, Mitchell Heid, Ryan Rickbeil, Eliezer Vigil, Reid Pearson, Kyle Petermeier Most Outstanding Defensive Lineman: Prairie Conf. South -

Brad Dreher Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman: Prairie Conf. South - Ryan Rickbeil MostOutstanding Offensive Back: Prairie Conf. South - Mitchell Heid Prairie Conference North andSouth: MVP Offense - Mitchell Heid All Section 6A: Austin Butler, Matthew Schettler, Mitchell Heid,

Kyle Petermeier, Chris Buhl Class 1A Academic All State Football Team: Kyle Petermeier Honorable Mention: Chris Buhl, Dalton May, Austin Butler, Zach Lafreniere

y Rin Porter As we have been studying Todd

ounty cemeteries, we keep com-g across the term “Zion” in theames of churches and their

accompanying cemeteries. Thereare several Zions and it is often dif-ficult to determine which churchbuilding and which plot of groundis meant.

“Zion” has many meanings andreferents in the world’s major reli-gions. Zion is a place name oftenused as a synonym for“Jerusalem,” and refers to a specif-ic mountain near Jerusalem wherea fortress stood, also named Zion,that was conquered by King David.The term later was used to refer toan area within the city of Jerusalem where the fortress waslocated, and then to refer toSolomon’s Temple in Jerusalem,the city itself, and the world tocome, or heaven, in Christianbelief. It is used in both the Oldand New Testaments of theChristian Bible, and is mentioned108 times in the Hebrew Bible. InIslamic tradition, it is also used asa name for Jerusalem, and isthought by some scholars to referalso to Mecca. (www.wikipedia.com<http://www.wikipedia.com> )

In addition, the Jewish longingfor Zion, starting with the deporta-tion and enslavement of Jews dur-ing the Babylonian captivity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity> that ended withMoses’ leading them out of Egypt,was adopted as a metaphor byChristian black slaves<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery> in the United StatesContinued on page 16