Off-duty Hillsboro officer accused of attempted murder
»Play Video
FOREST GROVE, Ore. - An off-duty Hillsboro police office was arrested on suspicion of attempted aggravated murder in connection to a standoff at his home on Sunday night that injured a sheriff's deputy.
Timothy Cannon, 46, has been booked in the Washington County Jail. He will face a judge in Washington County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
The case began when sheriff's deputies and Forest Grove police officers responded to a domestic disturbance involving Cannon and his wife at about 8:30 p.m. on 37th Avenue in Forest Grove.
Officers on the scene attempted to talk with Cannon, who had allegedly barricade himself inside the home. Officers entered the home and fired shots. One of the sheriff's deputies sustained non-life threatening injuries, the Washington Country Sheriff's Office said in a press release.
Cannon was taken into custody and deputies said he sustained cuts on his face for resisting arrest.
Investigators have not said whether Cannon fired his gun or elaborated further on why the officer is accused of attempted aggravated murder.
A Forest Grove Police captain told KATU News Sunday night the deputy had a gunshot wound. He was treated and released, according to the Forest Grove Police Department.
Neighbors around Cannon's home were evacuated during the incident. Cannon's wife and daughter, age 6, were not hurt, deputies said. Forest Grove Police said Cannon's wife works for the department but is not an officer.
Five Forest Grove police officers who fired their guns were placed on administrative leave following the incident. Four Washington County deputies, including the one who sustained a minor hand injury, also were placed on leave for discharging their weapons. One Hillsboro officer also was placed on administrative leave.
Cannon has been a Hillsboro police officer assigned to the patrol division for the past 13 years, Hillsboro police said.
Neighbors were eventually allowed to return to their homes.
A police spokesman said Forest Grove police have never been called to Cannon's home and they have no idea what triggered his outburst.
...This is a case for a smart Attorney, who will make his career on it. No deals, we go to the jury....The inner workings of a small town police department...Who is doing who's wife or husband? and was that person dispatched to the home? Tell us please....No I don't see this going to a jury, it would if I was defending the 13 year veteran Officer Tim Cannon. I would resist pleading and go for broke. Here's something for you to chew on, maybe this is a set up to make a ton of money for the Cannon family. At this point she could admit this was the story, except that she never dreamed it would go this far, and then she could enjoy the money too.. >>>I think Forest Grove PD just made it's biggest screw up in history<<< Like us please and Thank you for your support and readership..
http://www.facebook.com/OregonCrimesTimes?fref=ts
....Any good Lawyer can pick this case apart and create reasonable doubt. I predict that he will be exonerated completely...Why?.. Forest Grove will not want to air the dirty dealings and neither will the Washington Co DA....Officer Cannon may end up in a very profitable lawsuit...Indeed. What do you think?...... >>>One thing is certain, Officer Cannon will receive a fair shake....I am also certain, that the possibilities are endless as to whats really going on...Who knows maybe the Forest Grove PD has been gunning for Cannon....Maybe Lisa Cannon, Forest Grove PD employee, has fueled the fire by airing her personal problems at work...i.e impending divorce and child custody battle. Just saying.
How could you go, Virginia
And play that drifter's game
He sold to you the thunder
Was cannons in the rain
Â
(John Stewart)
The radio news is saying that 16 shots were fired in the house, which must now look like swiss cheese unless they're firing hollow point or frangible, which is possible.
Â
Sixteen shots in CQB is probably a very effective laxative and it looks like they were able to extract his cranium without too much damage. Still kinda looks like they used him as a squeegee, though.Â
Too much time on job or what for these guys, another one  http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/22/16642392-las-vegas-police-in-shock-after-lieutenant-kills-wife-son-self?
Officers are Union so if they guy manages to not get jail time he will probably be back at the job again.
Nope! No way! He's toast as far as any job in law enforcement is concerned!
 @jpk Pssst -- Whispering here:  I think Liberty4 just wanted to bad-mouth unions.  Otherwise his/her comment would've just sounded lame.  Oh, wait.......
Hate to say this but law enforcement individuals are NO better than the normal person.Â
Â
They apply and are hired to do a job...sometimes you get dirtbags like this guy and others just tend to grow into ones on the force. How many times do we hear about an officer arrested for drugs, abuse, murder, robbery, etc...
Â
Society puts them on a pedestal because law enforcement was considered a noble jobâ¦itâs just a job, they go home just like the rest of us.Â
Â
There will always be both good and bad in any profession.
 @Portland Braveheart Society needs to take many pro athletes off their pedestals for most of the same reasons. A "role model" should be based on character,  not profession.
Does the name Lukus Glenn ring any bells? His shooting was an example of the Washington County Sheriffs office idea of a reasonable shooting. The young man was shot in the back by Deputy's from the Washington County Sheriffs office and Sheriff Gordon said the shooting was appropriate. Last August the jury awarded the Glenn family $2.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Now we hear his officers are involved in this shooting. It would be my guess that the officer that got shot was shot by one of the 10 officers who opened fire...not the suspect. I could be wrong....but I don't think so.
Yup just as as in the other officer post..I hate being right on.
 @lee986321 Huh?
This comment has been deleted
@Sundowner @Fed up Fed @lee986321 Ok good, it wasn't just me.
 @Fed up Fed  @lee986321 My brain gets all hurted when I read her st.....who am I kidding?  I can't even read it.  I've given up asking for translations into English.
Hard to fathom trained law enforcement behaving like this. With guns in their homes.Â
Â
Perhaps all law enforcement should have their constitutional right to bear arms taken away - and only allowed to possess weaponry while on the job - not at home.Â
Â
Hmm - Mr. President - care to jerk your knee and your intellect - and suggest all police officers be denied their right to possess loaded guns in their homes.Â
Â
Do you care, Mr. President - about the safety of families of police officers or other police officers?Â
Â
This officer in Hillsboro - someone working with him, someone supervising him professionally ON THE JOB - had to know this guy was going over the mental stability cliff. Really. Someone ON THE JOB WITH HIM - needed to do a better job heading off this train wreck of a ATTEMPTED MURDER police officer and now, common criminal.Â
 @englishdaisy Jeesh -- how did I miss this comment of yours before posting on your other comment?  Again blaming this man's co-workers and supervisors AND President Obama.  Woo Hoo!  You hit the trifecta....and yet no blame for him?  Yousofunny!!
 @Sundowner  @englishdaisy Repeat after me, sarcasm. Good?
Â
What's actually happening post Sandy Hook is that the President and hoards of useful idiots are knee jerking and demanding that all gun owners be collectively punished for the acts of a deranged man. This is wrong.
Â
Here you have an event where a lone deranged man acted badly, but because of his status as an officer we're not knee jerking about it. Other than the reason being his status, not punishing the entire class of people is right.
Â
That is the point that englishdaisy made, which you were too slow to pick up on.
 @ChrisJ82 You seem to want to have an argument with me about something (can't quite figure out what it is -- must be because I'm so slow).  I "got" the sarcasm in her remark about "Do you care, Mr. President..." (clearly a reference to the gun issue despite your protestations).  I found little sarcasm in englishdaisy's assertion that this incident was the fault of the man's co-workers, supervisors or anyone else other than him.  I guess you and she elect to find fault with someone other, I don't.  Time for us to agree to disagree. Â
 @Sundowner No stories are a gun issue, which yet again feeds back into what englishdaisy's sarcasm. Yet curiously you inserted yourself into it.
Â
P.S. This story was actually getting way more attention on Sunday night on TV before it became widely known a police family was involved. It ended up being treated with kids gloves after that became known, with no articles until they had actual details, kind of like how we often ask them to report most stories.
 @ChrisJ82  I'm amazed that you know what rationale I apply to "regular" people...PsychicChrisJ? Sorry to burst your bubble, but this story has nothing to do with the "gun issue".  It's about domestic violence and a police standoff and only became a juicy news story because of his (former) position of authority.  Sorry, but take your "gun issue" to someone other than me.  All I've advocated since the Clackamas Town Center shooting is for closing the background check loophole and increased funding for mental health services.  I don't care what kind of gun someone owns, but I DO care what kind of person owns the guns.  If you disagree with that, feel free to explain (I actually don't care what your views are, but maybe someone else does).
 @Sundowner  @englishdaisy It's hilarious that you're able to apply that otherwise sane rational here, but not when it involves 'regular' people. That is what's at the heart of calling for the President to knee jerk about it, and that's why it's sarcasm.
 @ChrisJ82 @englishdaisy Repeat after me, not sarcasm.  Good?  Nice try, but englishdaisy has blamed everyone but the person who perpetuated the crime.  Perhaps I'm old school, but I believe people should be held accountable for their actions, good and bad.  I don't care if this guy was a policeman, accountant, doctor or ran an elephant ear food cart, it's his fault....not his supervisors, not his co-workers, not his WIFE, not President Obama.  And I don't care whether a gun was involved in the crime or not -- could just as easily been his fists or a lamp...this is a clear case of domestic violence where police got involved.  HIS FAULT -- the fact that you don't get that indicates that of the two of us, you're the one that's too slow to pick up on the facts.Â
I'm sure Cannon's Union will push hard to have all charges dropped and get this treated as a misunderstanding.  I'm sure they'll also push to have him reinstated with back pay and a promotion.Â
This comment has been deleted
 @Caspertoo  @Derrick Well, if they can't blame the union, the co-workers, the supervisors or President Obama, who's left?  The bad guy?  Silly....that would require placing blame where it's due.  As you'll notice ââ I've run into argument for doing that.
 @Derrick Cannon's union and this supervising had to have foreknowledge that this guy was going over the edge, off the cliff and was an imminent threat to everyone around him.Â
Â
This crisis should never have been allowed to get to this point. I would bet the house that this guy was exhibiting clear signs of emotional TURMOIL for a long, long time - and should have had his gun taken away from him - a long, long time ago.Â
Â
But will the public ever find any of that out. As this train wreck of a union shielded police officer just about took out multiple human beings... just because he COULD. Just because he was allowed to possess a loaded gun - and be THIS unstable in every single unacceptable way.Â
 @englishdaisy  @Derrick You both realize you're blowing smoke out of your lower orifice, right?  You don't have a clue what was going on in this man's brain.  HE probably didn't have a clue 5 minutes ahead of when the real problem began that anything was different.  Now you're blaming his union and supervisors?  Who would you be blaming if he was a carpenter or physician or farmer?  The guy snapped and lost it...in the course of minutes he changed roles from husband, father, police officer to criminal thug.  It's fortunate no one was hurt badly, but he gets to take full responsibility for what he did and he'll pay the price for the remainder of his life, as will his wife and young daughter. Â
Glad the appropriate charge was made.
Â
I am curious though. At least nine officers fired their guns and nobody hit Cannon? Time for some range time boys.
 @I812 Tactfully it is more difficult to hit an an officer who has had training as other officers do..you might want to re-think that.
 @I812 The police are not even saying if Cannon had a firearm (according to other sources).  I'm starting to wonder if the injured officer was hit by friendly fire as another poster suggested.  It will be interesting to see how this case unfolds over the next week.
@UtterReality @I812 You will never know the outcome.
A sad day for this family all around.
 @dblshot A day of relief for this family as well as the public at large that was in danger of him harming all of us too - - that this man did not succeed in KILLING multiple innocent persons.Â
Â
At this point - we all will be relieved to hear he is going to stay in jail for a very, very long time. After he intentionally tried with all of his will and trained professional might - to kill multiple persons.Â
Â
Just because...
Â
Heck, even if this guy hadn't of initiated the standoff, his career would have probably been severely limited as a police officer if he was convicted of some kind of misdemeanor domestic violence charge.  The Lautenberg amendment would have stripped him of his gun rights.
"GOOD GUYS with a GUN!"Â
Nine officers placed on administrative leave for what started as a "domestic" call? Wow! Now I read that they will not confirm that Cannon fired any shots. Were the cops too quick to shoot, or is there some kind of "special" treatment going on for Cannon. Makes one wonder??
Â
 @TruthSpeaker I wondered about that too. FYI KATU is reporting it wrong. Ten law enforcement officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after discharging their firearms during the incident. Five from The Forest Grove Police Department, four from The Washington County Sheriff's Office, and one from The Hillsboro Police Department (this is not Mr. Cannon.) This is standard procedure in any office involved shooting. The names of the officers are not being released at this time.
 @TruthSpeaker Friendly-fire comes to mind.
"Five Forest Grove police officers who fired their guns were placed on administrative leave following the incident. Four Washington County deputies, including the one who sustained a minor hand injury, also were placed on leave for discharging their weapons."
Â
Nine officers on administrative leave for this! HOLY COW!!! Â That's serious gunfire! I agree with someone else thinking this was going to be "suicide by cop", but failed.Â
 @washcomom   This is according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office .........Ten law enforcement officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after discharging their firearms during the incident. Five from The Forest Grove Police Department, four from The Washington County Sheriff's Office, and one from The Hillsboro Police Department.
Well, here we go once again without knowing the facts of the case. I guess it is OK if some civilian goes over the edge in regards to a marriage, but not OK if a cop - that is human - acts like anyone else out there in the news. It never ceases to amaze me that too many folks actually believe cops are not human beings and have exactly the same responses as any citizen when it comes to domestic emotions. Good Lord, move to the other side of the river where you can all talk about it, OK??
Mr. Cannon saw the cops reach for their wastes and was in FEAR FOR HIS LIFE...so he fired...
 @August100 You would know, because you were there.
 @August100 WASTES??? What wastes? Their ...garbage?
 @washcomom  @August100 there are so many grammatical errors in this article it's pathetic. I do suggest boycotting this lame excuse of journalism for a more professional news source.
 @Mrs. T While you have a point, wackamom was most likely referring to the earlier comment since nowhere in the story is the word wastes even used. At the time of this comment, it only exists in 5 places, and all of those are comments. Well 6 as of my comment.
There is another story on the World Portion....Las Vegas Police Lt. shot and killed his son, his wife and himself.... and they talk about civilians. Seems that law enforcement is as big a threat.
Â
Time for the police to turn in their guns at the next turn in.......ever wonder how many of those turned in ever go home with one of the LE types who are at the turn in?
 @FreerideNOT Cops are big-time wife/kid abuser & drug addicts/alcoholics...issues that are very well covered up...
 @August100  @FreerideNOT because they deal with people like you all day long.
 @August100 And you know this as fact? Let me guess, you read and watch the Liberal mediums. Never saw it on the scale you proclaim having been a sheriff, but I do not watch commercial TV, nor read the Liberal news...
Yeah, sure, whatever you say!
 @FreerideNOT You stay on your side and I will stay on mine, OK? You voted for Omama and watched the inauguration, right?? You have pre-judged all LEO's and have no clue, but at least you got your 15 seconds of satisfaction - just my opinion...
Yeah right boned, you have no clue who I voted for. I did not watch 1 minute of the taxpayer waste today, I am totally against illegals entering/remaining in the US.  btw when's the last 91 you visited?