Police officer kills man
who fires at him
The Associated Press
CRESWELL — A Creswell-area
man shot to death by an Oregon
State Police trooper after firing at
the officer apparently was return
ing home from a wedding anniver
sary celebration, relatives said.
The dead man was identified as
Marvin Donald Free, 64, who was
living in a night watchman’s trail
er on Bear Creek Road.
Free was a passenger in a pick
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up driven by his wife, Ellie Mureta
Free, 57.
The trooper, James Hawkins,
45, a 19-year veteran of the force,
is on administrative leave pending
an investigation.
The incident was the second fa
tal shooting by an Oregon state
trooper in a year.
The trooper stopped the pickup
shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday
about two miles east of Interstate 5
on the suspicion that the driver was
intoxicated, police spokesman Lt.
Gregg Hastings said.
Travis Trafton, a 27-year-old
University of Oregon student
whose cottage is about 100 yards
from the shooting scene, said he
was reading an economics text
book when the gunfire started.
Trafton estimated that at least
nine shots were fired — the first
few in rapid succession.
Family members said later that
they believed the couple was re
turning from celebrating their sev
enth wedding anniversary.
The trooper, who parked be
hind the pickup on the narrow
roadway, ordered Ellie Free out of
the truck and asked for her dri
ver’s license, Hastings said.
As the trooper was putting her
through a standard police sobriety
test, Marvin Free exited the pick
up with a.30-30 rifle.
Free came around the back of the
track and fired at the trooper, miss
ing at short range, Hastings said.
The trooper returned fire, Hast
ings said.
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