MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A grand jury has ruled that two Jackson County sheriff’s deputies were justified in shooting an armed man at a marijuana garden near Medford earlier this month.
The Jackson County district attorney’s office also released more details about the shooting death of 20-year-old Itali Arellana-Vargas of Mexico.
Prosecutors told the Mail Tribune newspaper that Arellana-Vargas was hit by two of six bullets fired from .223-caliber tactical police rifles, a standard weapon carried by all members of Jackson County’s SWAT team.
Arellana-Vargas was killed in an August 11 raid at a pot garden on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.
