The family's belongings that were allegedly thrown out of their camper by the suspect.

GARIBALDI, Ore. - A man was shot and killed Friday afternoon by sheriff deputies while they were responding to a burglary in progress, according to Tillamook County Sheriff Todd Anderson.

The shooting occurred in the yard of a home at 303 6th St., and according to a family member, the daughter of the homeowner went home to get something and found a man going through the family’s camper.

Sissy Vandecoevering said she confronted the man and he threatened her as he threw the family’s belongings out into the yard.

“I went to the camper and opened it up and he said, ‘get the ____ out of here.’ I was like, who are you? He said ‘get the ____ out of here,’ so I leave, and I call my mom and dad and they were like, ‘call the cops.’ So I call. They (police) came and knocked on the camper, and he came out with a hatchet in his arm. I mean self-defense the cops shot him down,” said Vandecoevering.

She went to a neighbor’s home to make that call to 9-1-1. Two deputies arrived on the scene within a matter of minutes when Anderson said the suspect threatened them.

“They made contact with the subject as he was coming out of the motor home,” Anderson said. “He was subsequently shot and died at the scene.”

The sheriff said the man came at deputies with a hatchet and kept advancing toward them.

Investigators have also been going through another trailer near the crime scene where neighbors said they have witnessed someone looking like the suspect coming and going.

Anderson said the suspect is a white man in his 60s but he has not released the suspect’s identity.

An eyewitness said she videotaped the incident and that recording is now part of the evidence.