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Other Shootings and Deaths In and Around Oregon: --On October 30, Springfield police shot and killed Richard Walter Sykes, 51. Sykes allegedly came out of his house with an assault rifle after a doctor had refused to give him a prescription, and he told his wife he would shoot the police if they came (Associated Press, November 1). Naturally, she called 911 and they sent the police. --Three days later, on November 2, nearby Eugene police shot Juan Carlos Aleman, 32, a murder suspect who supposedly came at officers with a knife in each hand after a standoff; officers then used a sponge round and a Taser on Aleman to take him into custody (KVAL, November 2 and Oregon Daily Emerald, November 4). In nearby, Vancouver, WA, three Clark County Sheriff's deputies and a Vancouver SWAT officer fired 19 bullets, killing Robert Kenneth Miller, 43, just after midnight October 8 after a standoff. Miller allegedly had pointed a handgun at his ex-girlfriend, who called 911 (Oregonian, October 9). Three Hillsboro, OR WinCo employees were not charged in the October 4 death of Mason Stevenson, 38, though they handcuffed him over a shoplifting incident and he died of positional asphyxia (Oregonian, October 23). In addition to the pit bull killed by Portland Police on November 24 (KGW-TV), a Clackamas Deputy killed one in Happy Valley on November 21 (KGW-TV), and Beaverton officers killed another on December 7 (Oregonlive.com, December 8). |
January, 2009
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