MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. (AP) — A friend of the couple says a man who was killed by Myrtle Creek police was acting irrationally after he and his wife signed divorce papers a week ago.
Art gallery owner Linda Johnson tells the Roseburg News-Review (http://bit.ly/p3rl91 ) that Cheri Bocock worked in the shop and was there on Wednesday when 58-year-old John Bocock confronted police outside. Johnson says she told Cheri not to look.
Police shot John Bocock after he refused to drop a gun he’d used minutes before to wound real estate agent Vince Lytsell.
Johnson says Lytsell was once a counselor, had helped the couple buy a house, and was trying to help them through the divorce.
