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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018 Shooting: ‘They never gave him a chance’ Clams: States keep watch on popular coastal draw shovel, he’d pick it up and start helping.” Ken Case Jr., Case’s brother, said they fought like brothers often do. But he described Case as very pro- tective. “He’s not perfect,” he said. “But he’s not the type to pull a gun on a cop.” Continued from Page 1A When two officers arrived, they ordered Case to drop his weapons, but he did not com- ply, Brown said. Instead, he appeared to have one of the guns behind his back while turning toward the officers with the other firearm in his left hand. Seaside Police Cpl. David Davidson fired three shots, striking Case in the chest area and causing his death, Brown said. Davidson and Officer Jess Vaughan, who was at the scene with Davidson but did not fire any shots, have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard practice. An autopsy on Case was conducted by the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office, Brown said, but the results of the ballistics and toxicology samples are pending and could take several months. ‘They never gave him a chance’ Michaela Wilson, who lives in the RV park, cast doubt on reports that Case had threat- ened anyone. After the dog attack, she said, Case had the two pistols and was complaining about “how those dogs needed to be put down.” But he was not pointing the guns at anyone, she added. Case was walking back to his trailer to put away the pis- tols — holding the weapons by the barrels — when police arrived, Wilson said. Inside her trailer brush- ing her teeth, Wilson said she heard yelling — and then gunfire. “I heard ‘drop your weapon’ and then just a few seconds later — pow, pow, pow,” she said. “They never Tragic confrontation Linh DePledge/For The Daily Astorian A message outside Gorilla Gas honors Cashus Dean Case, who was shot and killed by Seaside police. Case worked at the gas station. gave him a chance.” When she went outside, Wilson said she saw Case’s body near his trailer. She said the pistols were holstered and the holster was in his hand, not attached to his body. “He would have had to hold the holster in one hand and pull the gun out with the other hand,” she said. “None of this will bring him back, but he needs to be vindicated.” Others who knew Case said that while he could be a blow- hard, it is unlikely he would have courted a standoff with police. “The guy I knew, if they would have given him 10 sec- onds, they could have nego- tiated with him and there wouldn’t be a body on the ground,” said Jeff Walker, who worked with Case at Gorilla Gas. Ken Case Sr., Case’s father, drove from Elk City, Idaho, to Seaside after he heard about the shooting. He said his son, who moved to the coast from Idaho two years ago, had a daughter and liked to fish. While the two men had their ups and downs, he defended his son and appealed to people not to judge Case by a felony drug conviction in 2012 that prohibited him from having guns. “I’m feeling a lot of pain. It hurts,” Case Sr. said. “He wasn’t that kind of a kid. He really wasn’t … I think he was trying to right a wrong. “He was the type of guy where if you were digging a hole and there was an extra Cpl. Davidson was also involved in the tragic con- frontation that left Sgt. Jason Goodding dead in February 2016. Davidson and Goodding were trying to arrest Phillip Max Ferry on a felony war- rant downtown when Ferry resisted. Davidson fired his Taser at Ferry, who fired one shot from a pistol back at the officers, hitting Goodding under his bulletproof vest. Davidson fired several rounds from his gun and killed Ferry. An investigation concluded that Davidson was legally and morally justified in shooting Ferry. In December 2015, David- son was among several offi- cers involved in a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 101 that nearly spun out of control. A Wheeler man refused to give his driver’s license to a Cannon Beach police offi- cer who had stopped him for a defective headlight. After a protracted debate on the side of the highway, the driver started his car, prompting Davidson, who had placed a spike strip in front of the vehicle, to draw his gun and order the driver to turn off the engine. The Cannon Beach police officer cautioned that officers did not have to force the driver to accept a traffic citation. Officers ulti- mately left the citation under the man’s windshield wiper, and he drove away. Co-op: Astoria backs new grocery design Continued from Page 1A “This would, in effect, be a tentative decision tonight,” he said. The co-op’s new location would face east from the north- east corner of 23rd Street and Marine Drive toward a parking lot. The loading bay would be on 23rd Street, while the drive- way to the store would be from Steam Whistle Way, a side street snaking through the Mill Pond neighborhood. The Planning Commission and City Council previously approved a zone change for the new store. The city’s Design Review Committee approved the co-op’s site plans last month, but Mill Pond residents Cheryl Storey, Barbara Bower and John Ryan appealed the decision to the City Council. 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They have called for access from 23rd Street and promoted an alternative that would have the co-op face west toward the parking lot. “We are not against the co-op,” Bower said during tes- timony Monday. “We are sim- ply against the traffic issues as proposed.” Members and staff of the co-op testified against the appeal, arguing that the store has taken pains to present an attractive project, meet the city’s requirements and miti- gate neighbors’ concerns. The store’s plans call for widen- ing Steam Whistle Way by 4 feet and installing a sidewalk along the south side, along with landscape and seating improvements. City councilors wondered why the store couldn’t face west and use 23rd Street for access. They called on Don Vallaster, co-owner of the property and architect for the co-op, who said the co-op had looked at four or five layouts and found the current design gave the best access for pedes- trians along Marine Drive and loading trucks from 23rd Street. Councilors pondered whether to consider traffic issues under their purview, potentially sending the co-op’s plan back to the Design Review Committee. Estes maintained that by city code, traffic issues are reviewed at the staff level. LaMear, who was also the lone “no” vote in the co-op’s zoning change approval, said it would be terribly remiss not to consider the impact the undeveloped property next to the grocer’s proposed location would have on Steam Whistle Way. “If that ingress and egress is on Steam Whistle Way, it will ruin that neighborhood,” she said. The site had previously been planned as a headquarters and Astoria branch for Wauna Federal Credit Union. Price, Brownson and Jones commis- erated with the concerns of residents but ultimately said that development was inevi- table there, and that the co-op had done enough to mitigate its impact. The grocery wanted a larger store after outgrowing its space on Exchange Street downtown. “I think five years from now, if the co-op is built, the majority of residents in Mill Pond will be thrilled it’s there,” Jones said. Continued from Page 1A The thinking is “if you have a time period when clams are not being used in the way they should — meaning they’re not being kept — maybe we shift the season to when they’ll be bigger and be kept,” said Matt Hunter, shellfish and phytoplankton leader for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We just have to look at it,” Buckmaster said. “I don’t think there’s any sense on the commission that we need to do anything or we should do anything, but there certainly is a sense on the commission … that it’s time to review exactly how (the fishery) is working and can we make it work any better.” It’s a social issue as well as a biological issue, he added. Clam digging is a major tourist draw and a local tradition. No matter what goes on in Oregon, digging could be limited in Washington state this winter. Long Beach’s popular digging grounds remain low on harvest-sized clams. Last year, the state saw the lowest number of harvest-sized clams in 25 years. This year, it’s even less. “There’s not going to be a lot of digging at Long Beach in the coming sea- son,” predicted Dan Ayres, a biologist for the Wash- ington Department of Fish and Wildlife who leads the state’s coastal shellfish unit. Things could pick up in the spring, though, if the larger of the small clams that are on the beach now grow to a harvestable size. Farther north, razor clam populations appear to be robust. “Overall, the picture is bright for the future,” Ayres said. “But Long Beach is going to have a little bit of a gap.” In Oregon, the number of up-and-coming razor clams is significantly over what fishery managers saw last year. “I can tell you it’s much better than last year already,” Hunter said. The department just began its annual razor clam stock assessment on Clat- sop beaches and Hunter won’t have final popula- tion numbers until the end of September. He will pres- ent the numbers to the Fish and Wildlife Commission in December and expects to discuss possible season changes with commission- ers then. Both states will con- tinue as usual to test for the presence of marine toxins like domoic acid. Oregon’s southern coast has experi- enced particularly high lev- els of domoic acid this year. Cape Arago, near Charles- ton, to the California border remains closed to razor clam harvest because of domoic acid. However, neither state has seen an increase in the production of the toxin in Clatsop County or Pacific County recently. But, Ayres noted, there are projections of an El Nino event this winter. 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