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Man shot by deputy had felony record

He escaped from Idaho jail, robbed bank in Oregon

By Emily Gillespie, Columbian Breaking News Reporter
Published: December 20, 2016, 9:38pm

The suspected prowler who was shot and killed by a Clark County sheriff’s deputy Sunday was involved in an Idaho jail escape and an Oregon bank robbery in 2002.

Paul Joseph Kolar, then 23, and an accomplice escaped from jail in Benewah County, Idaho, and drove to Elgin, Ore., in a stolen Subaru station wagon in May 2002, according to the La Grande Observer. Once there, Kolar entered a US Bank and used a shotgun to demand money from three female bank employees, the newspaper said.

After escaping with money and leading police on a high-speed pursuit, Kolar and the accomplice were arrested at gunpoint, the paper reported.

At the time of his escape, Kolar was being held in the Benewah County jail awaiting transfer to an Idaho state prison for a felony conviction, the newspaper reported. In October 2001, Kolar was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance, though the case was suspended and later dismissed, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections.

He was convicted in Oregon of the robbery and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

It is unclear if Kolar had a connection to Clark County.

Kolar was identified by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office as the man shot and killed by a deputy who responded to a report of a prowler just before 8 a.m. Sunday at 310 N.W. 289th St. east of Ridgefield.

The deputy encountered and engaged with Kolar, who the sheriff’s office said appeared to be armed with a handgun.

The deputy shot Kolar multiple times, and Kolar was later pronounced dead at a hospital, the sheriff’s office said. The deputy was not injured.

The deputy involved has not been identified, though the sheriff’s office said the deputy has been placed on paid leave per agency policy.

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