Man shoots self in dispute

An elderly man suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a domestic dispute at his home Friday evening, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.

The 80-year-old man and his 75-year-old wife were apparently engaged in a dispute at their home on Maverick Lane near the Bend Airport, during which the husband shot himself. The wife fled to a neighbor’s house, and 911 dispatchers were contacted at 7:41 p.m.

Sheriff’s deputies, Oregon State Police and Bend Police officers set up a perimeter around the house, and a crisis negotiator contacted the man by phone. He agreed to exit the house, and was taken to St. Charles Bend for treatment of life-threatening injuries.

The man’s wife was not injured, and the sheriff’s office is not currently identifying any of the parties involved.

OSU-Cascades open houses

Oregon State University-Cascades has scheduled two public open houses to share information and answer questions about its expansion on Bend’s west side.

The meetings, 6-8 p.m. Dec. 12 and noon-1:30 p.m. Dec. 13, are the first in a series of quarterly open houses planned over the next two years.

Both December meetings will be at Cascades Hall on the Central Oregon Community College campus, and will address expansion steps taken to date and the campus master planning process.

— Bulletin staff reports