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THE DAILY ASTORIAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
FBI agents inYestigated oYer shots ¿red dXring standoff
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — FBI
agents who were at the scene
of the shooting death of a key
¿gXre of the occXSation of an
Oregon national wildlife ref-
Xge are Xnder federal inYesti-
gation for not disclosing they
¿red two shots that Pissed
RoEert ³La9oy´ FinicXP
Oregon law enforcePent
of¿cials said TXesday that two
Oregon state trooSers were
MXsti¿ed in shooting FinicXP
on -an EecaXse he failed to
heed their coPPands to sXr-
render and reSeatedly reached
for his weaSon
FinicXP was strXck Ey three
roXnds ¿red Ey state trooSers
after he got oXt of his trXck
The trooSers also shot three
roXnds into FinicXP¶s trXck as
it was Earreling towards theP
of¿cials said
BXt of¿cials also said that
FBI agents who were on the
scene failed to say that as Fin-
icXP was getting oXt of his
trXck they thePselYes ¿red
two roXnds neither of which
hit hiP One of those roXnds
hit the roof of FinicXP¶s trXck
The 86 -Xstice DeSart-
Rick Bowmer/AP Photo
Arizona rancher Robert “LaVoy” Finicum carries a rifle after
standing guard all night at the Malheur National Wildlife Ref-
uge near Burns Jan. 6. On Tuesday, authorities said police
were justified in killing Finicum during a traffic stop on Jan. 26.
Pent¶s Of¿ce of InsSector
*eneral said it is inYestigating
the FBI teaP¶s actions work-
ing with Oregon of¿cials
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FinicXP was a high-Sro¿le
¿gXre in the weekslong stand-
off at 0alheXr National :ild-
life RefXge laXnched -an Ey
a sPall arPed groXS dePand-
ing the goYernPent relinTXish
control of SXElic lands and
oEMecting to the Srison sen-
tences of two local ranchers
conYicted of setting ¿res
+is death EecaPe a syP-
bol for those decrying federal
oYersight on SXblic lands in
the :est and elsewhere and
led to Srotests of what they
called an Xnnecessary Xse of
force
The FBI had said earlier
that FinicXP¶s shooting was
MXsti¿ed becaXse he was going
for a gXn
On TXesday Oregon law
aXthorities who were asked
to condXct an indeSendent
inYestigation backed XS that
assertion
DXring a news confer-
ence in Bend Oregon of¿-
cials Slayed Yideos show-
ing FinicXP and others in his
trXck -an dXring the initial
stoS by law enforcePent Fin-
icXP was driYing one of two
Yehicles that were SXlled oYer
while carrying key occXSation
¿gXres
9ideo taken froP the Shone
of one of his Sassengers shows
the occXSants Sanicking after
aXthorities stoSSed the trXck
and ordered theP to sXrrender
:ith his window rolled
down FinicXP yelled that he
and the others were on the way
to a Peeting with the sheriff of
*rant &oXnty That sheriff is
Xnder inYestigation by Oregon
aXthorities for contacts he had
with the occXSation leaders
FinicXP reSeatedly yelled
at the of¿cers to either let theP
continXe on their way to the
Peeting or shoot hiP
³Back down or kill Pe
now´ he shoXted
After a conYersation with
others in the trXck FinicXP
says ³I¶P going to keeS going´
and they sSed off leading
aXthorities on a short chase
FinicXP was driYing oYer
PSh when the trXck caPe
to a roadblock said DeschXtes
&oXnty 6heriff 6hane Nelson
A trooSer ¿red three shots
at the trXck as it aSSroached
becaXse it was a threat to law
enforcePent he said The
trXck Slowed into a snowbank
FinicXP got oXt and soPeone
froP the FBI teaP ¿red two
Pore shots Nelson said
As FinicXP stood in the
snow aXthorities told hiP
PXltiSle tiPes to lie on the
groXnd and sXrrender Fini-
cXP yelled ³yoX¶re going to
haYe to shoot Pe´ while reach-
ing into his Macket three tiPes
Fearing he had a gXn trooSers
¿red three roXnds all of which
hit FinicXP A loaded Sistol
was foXnd in his Macket Socket
Oregon inYestigators said
7UDLO *iYing SeoSle YirtXal access is a bene¿t to the Sark
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release ³:e hoSe it insSires Seo-
Sle to learn Pore aboXt these sites
and Yisit theP in Serson one day´
ToP Pinit a conserYation Yen-
tXres associate froP the &onser-
Yation FXnd¶s Portland of¿ce
trekked the Fort to 6ea Trail
oYer Labor Day weekend Xsing
*oogle¶s 6treet 9iew Trekker a
-foot-tall -SoXnd caPera and
backSack
The SanoraPic 9iew Trekker
creates a -degree digital Yiew
of the trail The caPera takes San-
oraPic Shotos eYery coXSle of
seconds
Pinit hiked the trail with his
wife +e said they were fortXnate
it was a clear day since the 9iew
Trekker does not work in the rain
After the hike Pinit sent the hard
driYes to *oogle
³It was a fXn actiYity to do
together´ Pinit said
6cott TXcker Lewis and &lark
National +istorical Park sXSerin-
tendent said he was contacted by
the &onserYation FXnd and *oo-
gle last sXPPer for a coPPer-
cial ¿lPing SerPit Oregon 6tate
Parks also had to aSSroYe a SerPit
for the work
*iYing SeoSle YirtXal access
to the trail is a bene¿t to the Sark
TXcker said PeoSle froP across
the coXntry can e[Serience the
trail and those interested in hik-
ing the trail can YisXally Slan
ahead
³It¶s another great tool to tell
the story of Lewis and &lark´
TXcker said
FinicXP Sosed a threat to of¿-
cers by nearly rXnning oYer
one of theP at the roadblock
and by reaching for a gXn
OccXSation PePbers in the
other Yehicle inclXding leader
APPon BXndy sXrrendered
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FinicXP¶s widow -eanette
FinicXP on TXesday reMected
aXthorities¶ conclXsion that her
hXsband¶s shooting was MXs-
ti¿ed and said she is talking
with attorneys aboXt taking her
faPily¶s ¿ght to coXrt
6Seaking to reSorters in 6t
*eorge 8tah -eanette Fini-
cXP said she belieYes her hXs-
band was shot with his hands
in the air trying to sXrrender
6he argXed he was reaching
to his side as a reaction to the
Sain of being shot
After FinicXP¶s death and
the arrests dXring the traf¿c
stoS Post occXSiers cleared oXt
of the wildlife SreserYe A few
holdoXts e[tended the occXSa-
tion to nearly si[ weeks before
they sXrrendered Feb
BXndy and Pore than two
dozen others with ties to the
standoff haYe been charged
with consSiracy to interfere
with federal workers
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