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Robert Wickizer, 70, was killed by police May 30, 2016, as they responded to a disturbance call in Tualatin. Officers said to be “involved” – one or more of whom shot Wickizer to death – were Tualatin officer Erich French, Beaverton officer Charles Wujcik, Beaverton officer Aaron Oberst, Washington County Sergeant Chris Schweigert, Hillsboro officer […]
Statesman Journal, April 25, 2015 What might have been the routine arrest of a Eugene man wanted for failing to appear in court on drug charges turned into a deadly shootout with Salem police officers. Before Friday’s tense, hours-long standoff ended with the gunman mortally wounded in a Wal-Mart parking lot, he had repeatedly fired […]
From Salem Statesman Journal, April 24, 2014 The Oregon State Medical Examiner has released 2013 statistics for drug-related deaths, finding that methamphetamine deaths are on the rise statewide. But other drugs, like heroin and cocaine, have declined. More than 200 people died in Oregon in 2013 due to drugs, nearly the same number of deaths […]
The Oregonian, Feb. 4, 2013 Police released the latest heroin overdose statistics Tuesday after the weekend death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman put the problem back in the national spotlight. Hoffman was found dead Sunday in a New York apartment with a syringe in his arm and dozens of packets of what appears to be […]
By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, Sept. 11, 2013 State officials have agreed to a $1.4 million settlement with the family of a patient at the Oregon State Hospital who died in his room but wasn’t discovered for hours. Moises Perez, 42, died in October 2009, of coronary artery disease and had recently complained of chest […]
By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, June 4, 2013 Every year about this time, Dr. Karen Gunson, the Oregon state medical examiner, and her colleagues tally up drug-related deaths in the state. And each year, Gunson sees trends in the numbers. For 2012, Gunson said, she saw that the ages of victims of heroin overdoses were […]
By Brian Lindstrom, in the Portland Tribune, Feb. 21, 2013 As parents of a 7- and an 8-year-old, my wife Cheryl Strayed and I often discuss what we hope to impart to our children. At the top of that list is resilience, which I define not only as the ability to persevere despite obstacles but […]
From the Oregonian, April 4, 2012 The warnings from law enforcement started early last year, said Dr. Karen Gunson, the state medical examiner: Police told her they were seeing a big increase in the amount of heroin entering the state. As the year wore on, the bodies kept piling up. By the end of 2011, […]
From the McMinnville News Register, June 4 2011 Last year, a single prescription drug killed 101 people in Oregon. No, it wasn’t the narcotic opiate oxycodone, dispensed primarily under the brand name OxyContin, or its cousin hydrocodone, under the brand name Vicodin. It was methadone, distributed under an array of little-known brand names. A pure […]
From The Oregonian, May 12, 2011 Methamphetamine-related deaths in Oregon jumped 22 percent in 2010, claiming 106 lives — the most in a single year over the last decade, according to statistics compiled by the state medical examiner. READ – The Numbers Have Dropped But Meth Still Takes Its Toll, OPB.org – April 27, 2011 […]
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