Shawna Strause, president of the Cactus Cycling Club, talks to fellow cyclists about Kenneth Vieira, who died Thursday, and relays an emotional conversation with Vieira’s son via cellphone before the group departs on a memorial ride from Ina and Oracle roads, escorted by Pima County sheriff’s deputies. Vieira, 68, of Tucson, and Clare Rhodes, 72, of Santa Fe, were struck and killed by a truck. Brian Lynch, 28, was booked on suspicion of several criminal charges.

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