Local briefing
Published 5:24 pm Monday, April 22, 2024
Crook County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a crash Saturday night and found an unconscious Prineville man whose pickup truck had veered off the road and rolled.
After crashing around 11:15 p.m., the driver, who wasn’t identified, was thrown from his Dodge pickup off of NE Mill Creek Road near NE Lawson Road in Prineville, said Sgt. Javier Sanchez, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, in a news release.
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A passing driver noticed the man and saw that he was unconscious. Crook County Fire & Rescue drove the man to the intersection of U.S. Highway 26 and Mill Creek Road where Oregon State Police troopers closed the road so a Life Flight helicopter could land, Sanchez said.
The driver was taken via helicopter to St. Charles Bend for further medical treatment. He was in critical condition, Sanchez said.
Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 report of a shooting Sunday near China Hat Road south of Bend, which stretches into the Deschutes National Forest, law enforcement officials said.
The caller didn’t give the 911 dispatcher any information other than someone had been shot, Jason Wall, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, said in a news release.
Around 4 p.m. Sunday, sheriff’s deputies responded to the area, which is near recreational trails and long-term homeless encampments along Forest Road 18. They found out a 32-year-old man was taken to St. Charles Bend, Wall said.
The man didn’t have life-threatening injuries, but had been shot once, Wall said.
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Sheriff’s deputies discovered that two men who live in the area got into a fight, Wall said. Both men, who weren’t named, pulled out their guns, and the 32-year-old man who drew his gun second was shot in the stomach and hand by the first man, Wall said.
A third person who wasn’t involved in the fight drove the shooting victim to China Hat Road where he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, Wall said.