Deputies shoot man during standoff in Clackamas County
OREGON CITY, Ore. - The Clackamas County sheriff's office says a SWAT team shot a suicidal man who was armed with a gun early Monday at a home in the southwestern part of the county.
The sheriff's office says dispatchers were called Sunday night with a report the man was armed and making threats near Meridian Road and Whiskey Hill Road in rural southwestern Clackamas County.
Negotiators and the SWAT team tried to resolve the situation, but the sheriff's office says the man was shot about 2 a.m. "due to his actions." Other residents had been evacuated and no one else was hurt.
The man was later identified as 46-year-old Paul Jeffery Smith. He was treated and released from Silverton Hospital before being booked at the Clackamas County Jail.
Smith was released on Tuesday after receiving help from Clackamas County Community Health. It is unknown at this point whether any criminal charges will be filed.
Good job on the part of LE in taking the individual down and not out.
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It does not matter what kind of weapon the SWAT shooter used, probably not an assault type weapon, but something actually accurate.
It does not matter if it were a pistol, rifle, pellet rifle or dart gun. The end result was a safe takedown of someone.
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@Just Lookin Got news for you theer is never intent for a safe firearms takedown, this man is just lucky.
If I was going to off myself,I would shoot myself rather than potentially leaving long lasting emotional reprocussions that a officer would most likely go through knowing that they killed another human.(not that I'm making plans or anything)
@noneofyourbizzness Mentally unstable and/or depressed people are often not thinking that far ahead (or deep) to do that. Otherwise, they'd like not kill themselves, knowing that it's so permanent.
I, for one, am glad that law enforcement officers were able to go home afterwards, uninjured! I certainly hope they can get past this lawful exercise in the use of deadly physical force without emotional issues.Â
And  that is how it is done folks.  Good job, shooter disabled and still kickin.
Where are the high capacity magazines and the assault rifles in this story?
 @portlandborn83 In the hands of the police, of course.
This sounds like a case of suicide-by-cop. Except, the cops didn't shoot straight enough to finish the job...
 @Whobeke Damned if they do, damned if they don't, eh?
There's one more tic on the statistic chart showing someone got shot with an assault weapon. Â Never mind it was lawful, or even potentially the best thing to do. Â The number of people shot in Oregon in 2013 just went up.
 @Umhal it wasn't an assault weapon. It was most likely an AR-15, which isn't an assault weapon.
 @Beergod just pointing out the use of statistics by the anti-gun crowd.
@Umhal Where did the article say it was an assault rifle?I just saw it saying, "armed with a gun".....
 @MickRoh  @Umhal Maybe the cop walked up and shot him at close range with a .38 or something, yeah?
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The weapon the officer used, in fact, was in all probability an "LEO model" of an AR-15 or G-36C which is not available to private citizens. SWAT teams arm themselves with the most capable tools for the job, which is why private citizen--the radical majority of whom will never commit a crime with them--seek access to those same tools.
In fact neither the print nor the video say what type of gun it was. It could have been a pistol, a shotgun, a Daisy Red Rider BB gun. I am sure the SWAT officer used an assault rifle to shoot the guy though.
 @Fed up Fed  @Umhal You said CDC.  I said FBI.  And you also said (in another article's comments) that you were done talking with me.  I  think I'll hold you to that.
I agree with the fact that the anti-gun crowd inflates the numbers - politicians and economists do that all the time, also, to further their own agendas!
 @musiclover I hereby retract my choice of words when I said "another person KILLED."  I should have said "another person SHOT..." with an assault weapon.
 @musiclover oh but my statement IS true.  You have to dig quite a bit and know a tad about statistics when going through the FBI data to separate out the "legal use of force" shootings from the "all shootings" classification.  There's an uncomfortably large difference between the numbers being used to support gun bans and the numbers that *actually* describe the problem.
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the gun ban crowd is using inflated numbers in an attempt to further their agenda. Â So, i'm pointing that out. Â Here's another stat for them to misrepresent.
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Even if it would have been an assualt weapon, he wasn't killed. So your point is moot - I do understand that you are being somewhat sarcastic here, but the comment wasn't entirely true!
 @MickRoh Yup. you make my point for me.  it was the swat officer who fired the assault weapon.  That's a statistic.  One more person killed with an assault weapon.
Somehow it gets lost in the rhetoric that most of the anti-gun talk of "x many people were shot last year" includes those shot by cops.
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My point is that the tally being used to argue in favor of gun control includes "legal and legit" shootings too!
All this gun violence............where is Chucky Hales when you need him?