GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The Josephine County district attorney has released new details about this week’s fatal shooting of a Grants Pass man by a sheriff’s deputy.
District Attorney Steven Campbell told the Grants Pass Daily Courier that Sgt. John Justema fired the single shot that killed Vaughn R. Sanderson.
Campbell says there were six deputies at the scene and Sanderson was standing in his garage as he threatened them and fired a shotgun toward Justema and another deputy before Justema fired back.
Justema is a 30-year veteran of the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said earlier that deputies were called to the scene by someone reporting that Sanderson was drinking and threatening to kill himself.
