Author: Krista Allen

“The post was threatening in nature and directed toward Navajo community members due to the suspect’s stated belief that all ‘Navajo’ are infected with COVID-19,” Page Police Detective Terry TerEick said in a statement. “An investigation was immediately opened.”

“When you think about the whole school being closed, you think, ‘OK, the kids are gone, the employees are gone –– it’s officially closed.’ But it wasn’t. And we had advocated for that and that’s what people don’t understand.”

Clasin also announced that Rocky Ridge educator Laverne Bitsui also passed on yesterday. It is not known if she was infected by the coronavirus. People from the area have been expressing their condolences to her family.

“And I asked them if they are OK and they said, ‘Yeah,’” Holly said. “They told us (Holly and her sisters) we couldn’t come to the house to visit them. The only thing we could do was phone calls, which was really hard on us because we had to be isolated from them and we couldn’t really do anything.”