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Shooting justified in Coos County.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-APR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1191 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Shooting justified in Coos County.(Government)(The DA's review says that a deputy had no choice when he shot a mentally ill man)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

COOS BAY - He told police they'd have to come in and kill him.

In the end, that's exactly what happened.

Coos County District Attorney Paul Burgett on Friday ruled the county's fourth officer-involved shooting in the past year justified, ending further inquiries into the March incident that left 38-year-old Ronald Love Oxford dead at the hands of sheriff's deputies.

Oxford's father, Frank, told the district attorney that he had concerns about how police engaged his son on March 30 and that he wanted a citizen review. But there is no citizen review board in Coos County, said chief deputy district attorney Paul Frasier, and the other avenues for further scrutiny - a grand jury or district attorney inquest - wouldn't address Oxford's concerns, he said.

Reached at home on Friday, Frank Oxford declined to comment, saying he hadn't decided how he wanted to pursue the case yet.

Charleston resident Ronald Oxford had suffered from mental illness since he was 17 and had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, Frasier said.

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