Although not confirmed, drugs are suspected as the possible cause of their deaths
The Prescott Valley police department has identified two Yavapai Community College students who were found dead at a Prescott Valley home Saturday morning, November 3. They are Jake Morales and Gunner Bundrick.
The two were students had graduated from Bradshaw Mountain High School in 2017. Bundrick was a standout quarterback at his high school. He went on to play football at Mesa Community College before transferring to Yavapai College. He played outfield on the Yavapai baseball team in the spring 2018.
Morales played football at a Missouri college before transferring to Yavapai Community College.
Yavapai College had grief counselors come in on Monday to speak with the baseball team and any other students who wised to take advantage of the service.
The official cause of death will not be made public for from four to six weeks. It takes this long to obtain the results of toxicology and other tests administered by the Yavapai County Medical Examiner’s office.
A story in the The Daily Courier of July 5, 2018 announced that the Launch Pad Teen Center in Prescott will be partnering with Yavapai College to offer Prescott teens what is described as “a real college experience through the `Real World Preskitt Camp’ July 23 through July 27.”
Yavapai Community College has begun operating a motel/hotel business from Mid-May to the end of July on the Prescott Campus. It is attempting to attract groups of 20 or more persons to stay in a residence hall and enjoy the various accouterments associated with the College. These including the indoor swimming complex, weight room, gymnasium, tennis courts and all the other accouterments it has recently upgraded.
Yavapai College is warning residents that scammers have acquired college owned phone numbers and are using them to make nuisance calls. Yavapai College chief information security officer, Sean Hagan, said: “It appears that someone was spoofing our telephone numbers and attempting to impersonate College employees. We are aware of five instances related to the scam so far. Given the design of the public telephone system, there’s not much we can do about it beyond collecting evidence and getting the police involved, which we are doing now.”
Founded in 1964, Cochise Community College has campuses in Douglas and Sierra Vista, and centers in Benson, Fort Huachuca, and Willcox. It was announced in October 2017 that the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program has ranked Cochise College as one of the nation’s 150 best community colleges
What most County citizens don’t know is that the College administration does not need to justify to County voters or seek their approval for the massive construction/renovation projects it is using their primary property tax revenue to pay for. In the distant past, the College had to seek General Obligation Bond approval from voters before embarking on capital projects. When seeking the bonds, the Administration had to justify the expenditure of the millions of dollars and imposition of a secondary property tax to pay for them. Because of the budgetary scheme the Administration created, that kind of accountability to voters no longer exists. (All the Administration needs is to persuade the highly political Governing Board three west county representatives to vote for the annual budget and the spending spree continues. This group has approved every request from the College since at least 2012.) 