SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017
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Sgt. Carrie Carver of the
Lane County Sheriff’s Office
said, “The suspect fired on law
enforcement. Law enforce-
ment returned fire. The suspect
was pronounced deceased at
the scene.”
According to Carver, sever-
al responding officers received
minor injuries not related to
the gunfire.
Angela Pershern from the
Lane
County
District
Attorney’s Office released a
statement Monday that read,
“The identities of the deceased
and the involved deputies and
officers are not officially being
released at this time. As with
all law enforcement involved
deadly force events, we are
unable to provide further
details while the IDFIT
investigates the incident.
Further information will be
provided following the inves-
tigation when all of the facts
are known, as we want to
ensure that all information
provided to the community is
accurate.”
Highway 126, near North
Fork Road, was closed
for several hours during
the follow-up investigation
Saturday evening before re-
opening a little after 4 a.m.
Sunday.
“We are saddened that this
happened in our community,
but are very thankful for the
community support and the
assistance of our neighboring
law enforcement agencies,”
said Carver.
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According
to
witness
reports, Ollman’s previous car
had been abandoned after
spike strips put down by police
had taken out the tires farther
up North Fork Siuslaw Road.
“I could tell he had a gun in
his pocket and then he pulled it
out,” said Nivilinszky. “He
told me, ‘Don’t move or I’ll
kill you.’”
With the gun pointed at his
head, Nivilinszky was told to
get on his knees. Ollman then
asked if there was anyone in
the house.
Nivilinszky said he was
alone, although his parents,
Barry
and
Shannon
Nivilinszky, were inside.
Ollman then asked for the
car keys.
“I thought the keys were in
my pocket, but as I reached
inside I realized they weren’t
there,” said Nivilinszky.
Panic began to set in until he
realized he had left them in the
vehicle.
“I stayed on my knees as he
got into the car,” said
Nivilinszky, who quickly real-
ized Ollman couldn’t get the
parking break to work. “It’s a
new car where you have to
push a button to turn it on.”
As a result, Nivilinszky
ended up yelling instructions
to Ollman, who was then able
to start the car and drive off.
After making sure his
Subaru was completely gone,
Nivilinszky ran inside his
home and called 9-1-1, only to
discover law enforcement was
already pursuing Ollman for
stealing a car earlier that day.
“Afterward, I felt pretty
shocked,” said Nivilinszky,
who lives more than 10 miles
up North Fork Road. “It makes
you realize that you never
know what’s going to happen
day to day — and that things
can change quickly.”
Less than 10 minutes later,
North Fork resident Brian Cole
began to hear gun shots while
standing in his driveway at his
home near the corner where
Munsel Lake Road intersects
with North Fork Road.
“My first thought was that it
was target shooting. But as it
continued, I began to worry
that it was a domestic dispute,”
said Cole, who retrieved his
rifle from inside and returned
to the driveway.
“At that point, I heard what
almost sounded like a fully
automatic weapon — that’s
how fast the shots were being
fired,” said Cole, who could
see a car pulled over at the
intersection and a figure shoot-
ing what appeared to be a
weapon similar to an an M-16
assault rifle toward police.
According to Cole, it
appeared that Ollman had
staged himself to confront
police, who were ranged on
both the North Fork and
Munsel Lake roads and return-
ing fire.
“It was like a war,” said
Cole. “It sounded like hun-
dreds of shots being fired
between [Ollman] and the
police.”
Cole estimated the standoff
continued for five to 10 min-
utes before Ollman relin-
quished his position and sped
south on North Fork Road
toward Highway 126, where
law enforcement was posi-
tioned to keep Ollman from
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continuing west into Florence
or east toward Mapleton.
Behind him, a dozen police
cars in single file closed in
behind Ollman, with a dozen
or so more — according to
Cole — spreading out to cover
both lanes and create a wall as
they sped south toward the
highway.
A short time later, “I heard
more gunfire echoing,” said
Cole.
Ollman’s spree ended just
east of the entrance to Three
Rivers Casino Resort, where
he was pronounced dead at the
scene. Because the Lane
County Interagency Deadly
Force Investigation Team
(IDFIT) is investigating the
shooting, full details, including
the sequence of events leading
up to the carjacking, will not
be released until the investiga-
tion is complete.
Of
the
experience,
Nivilinszky said, “I just think
that everyone needs to hug
their families, you know? Let
them know you love them
because you never know
what’s going to happen.”
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Kim Stokes’ fifth-grade class ends the school year with a ROV demonstration at Coastal Fitness June 6.
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Stokes and eight other teach-
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involved in a joint project with
the University of Oregon that
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Stokes refers to it as the
Super Lesson.
“The eight teachers from
SES all participated in a week-
long training back in the sum-
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over the course of the year, we
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geting the areas students would
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designing, building and testing
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Stokes and her students
began the Super Lesson by
traveling to The Hatfield
Marine Center in Newport in
December 2016. There, the stu-
dents took part in an ROV
class, where they were given
training on how to construct an
ROV.
Next, each team of students
chose various parts and created
an ROV. Teams then took their
vehicles outside to test their
products in pools.
The field trip to the Hatfield
Marine Center provided the
examples and strategies for
designing ROVs for the SES
competition.
Students assembled the
ROVs, installed motors and,
after decorating them, brought
everything to the Coastal
Fitness pool June 6.
There the ROVs took part in
a competition to see how fast
the vehicles could travel and
how many objects they could
retrieve with the mechanical
arms the students engineered.
At the pool, only a few
minor adjustments, such as
additional floatation devices,
had to be added and the ROVs
eventually all worked just fine.
“While this project did
require setting aside additional
class time, I feel it was benefi-
cial to the students and provid-
ed them with a real-life engi-
neering activity, that not only
supported our standards but
was a lot of fun too,” Stokes
said. “We were able to afford to
purchase 3 motors and batteries
to complete the materials need-
ed for the project. .... Now,
because of these efforts, other
students can use the ROV kits
next year and perhaps engineer
additional kits to involve more
students at both the elementary
and middle schools.”