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A Decade of Deadly Force in Oregon:
--On April 13, Eugene SWAT officers Aaron Johns and Tyler Richards shot and wounded Scott Edward Gardner, 53, who had refused to leave a family home, then allegedly came out with a rifle (Eugene Register Guard, April 15 and 17). --On April 11, unidentified Clackamas County Deputies shot and killed a man during a domestic disturbance call in an unincorporated area of the county (Oregonlive, April 12). --On April 10, unidentified Klamath County Deputies and/or Oregon State police shot and killed Matt Goff,* who had taken a child and a weapon from his home. Hoff allegedly shot and wounded a State Trooper (KMVU-26, April 13). --On April 2, Lincoln City Police Sergeant Robert Bomar and Officers Hayden Tolzman and Molly Wehrley shot and killed David A. Xanatos, 40, in a drug store parking lot, where they say he advanced on them with a knife (Oregon State Police, April 10). --On March 26, Oregon State Police Troopers Sherron DeBerry, Michael Iacob and Caleb Yoder and Recruit Trooper Joshua Buckles shot and killed William Patrick Floyd, 51, with 16 shots in seven seconds after responding to a "driving complaint" on the freeway south of Salem, where Floyd allegedly reached for a gun (Salem Statesman Journal, April 11). --On March 14, Springfield Officer Eric Pardee shot and killed Chase Eldon Brooks, 32, in the parking lot of a big-box store after Brooks allegedly damaged a vehicle with a crowbar (Eugene Register Guard, March 14). --On March 9, Bend Officer Tim Williams and Sgt. Thomas Russell fired 14 times, seriously wounding Danielle Nicole Bower, 29, with 4-5 bullets. Bower had driven away from a hospital after acting "erratically" and the officers were attempting to arrest her at the side of a highway east of Bend (Bend Bulletin, March 12 and KTVZ-12, April 10). --On February 24, Umatilla County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Post and Milton-Freewater Officer James Farr shot and wounded Stacy Albert Clark, 43, a man who had reportedly been firing a gun in Umapine (Elkhorn Media Group, March 6). --On February 14, Silverton Police Officers Jonathan Lamoreaux and Tim Hein shot and killed domestic violence suspect William Bluestone, 21, after allegedly trying to negotiate with him for over an hour (KPTV-12, February 20). --On January 2, Hillsboro Officer Christopher Taaca and Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. James Haxton shot and killed Stanley Hayes, 69, after he was reportedly firing a handgun and a rifle inside a condo at 1 AM (Oregonlive, January 6). --On January 1, Jackson County Sheriff's Sgt. Benjamin Weaver shot and killed Teddy James Maverick Varner, 29, with three shots while Weaver and Deputy Thomas Hohl were investigating the scene of a previous shooting near Central Point and Varner pointed a gun at them. A witness said Varner was living with post traumatic stress disorder (KDRV-12, February 5). --On December 25, Deschutes County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Ramos fired eight shots at James Lamkin, 29, near La Pine after Lamkin allegedly led officers on a chase, then fired his weapon at another Deputy; nobody was hit (Oregonlive, January 10). In other Oregon deadly force news, Eagle Point has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of Matthew Graves (Oregonlive, January 21), who police killed in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant in September 2018 (PPR #76).
PCW's letter to the Attorney General: <
portlandcopwatch.org/ORshootings_letter0220.pdf>; *- The print version of this listed Matt Goff as Matt Hoff; PCW apologizes for the error. |
May, 2020
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People's Police Report
#80 Table of Contents
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Here are the eleven incidents that
happened so far in 2020, plus the 35th incident from 2019 which
occurred after the deadline for PPR #79.