April 2005 – Mental Health PDX

Shooting of man with mental illness justified in Coos County

April 30, 2005

Eugene Register-Guard, April 30, 2005 He told police they’d have to come in and kill him. In the end, that’s exactly what happened. Coos County District Attorney Paul Burgett on Friday ruled the county’s fourth officer-involved shooting in the past year justified, ending further inquiries into the March incident that left 38-year-old Ronald Love Oxford […]

Deputies shoot, kill knife-wielding man

April 1, 2005

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From the Eugene Register-Guard, April 1, 2005 Two sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a knife- and hatchet-wielding man on his parents’ rural Coos County property after a stun gun failed to stop him, authorities said Thursday. Three deputies initially responded to a call from 38-year-old Ronald Love Oxford’s father Wednesday morning, saying that his son […]