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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.”
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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
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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
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“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.
Neighbors have argued that
Steam Whistle Way was meant
as a neighborhood alleyway,
rather than the access point
to a busy commercial devel-
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opment. 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.
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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.
The warmer water asso-
ciated with an El Nino
“potentially means more
problems with harmful
algae,” he said. “But it’s not
a sure deal.”
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