JUNCTION CITY, Ore. — The Lane County Sheriff’s Office says an explosion rattled a Junction City police car, but the two officers inside escaped injury.
Capt. Spence Slater tells The Register-Guard the officers felt the concussion of an explosion Sunday night and initially thought they had been shot at.
Slater says detectives think the explosion was a pipe bomb, and don’t know whether the officers were targeted or if the timing was a coincidence.
At first, police thought the source of the explosion may have been from one of two nearby houses. A Lane County SWAT team and a military Humvee were among the officers and equipment dispatched, in case one or more people responsible for the explosion were holed up.
Police concluded that no one in those houses was the culprit.
