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Law enforcement officers responding Nov. 13 to a house in Camas, where a Clark County deputy later shot a man, were notified of a safety bulletin that the man had previously threatened to die by police, according to a video summary released Wednesday by the sheriff’s office.
Deputy Forrest Gonzalez, who fired his weapon, can be heard on body camera footage saying, “I’m going to take a shot on this guy if he’s pointing (a gun) at us.” He can then be heard announcing “shot away,” before firing three shots at 41-year-old Patrick Wetzel, who was seated in his SUV in the driveway.
Vancouver’s city manager announced Tuesday he has appointed Troy Price to be the next police chief.
Price has been with the Vancouver Police Department for 30 years, working his way up through the agency from patrol officer. He was the only finalist for the chief role and has served as interim chief since Jeff Mori retired Oct. 11. Price was also previously a finalist for chief when the city selected Mori in 2022.
More than a dozen new businesses will join Costco and In-N-Out at the Pioneer Street junction with Interstate 5 in Ridgefield.
City documents show 13 new commercial tenants are expected to move into Union Ridge Town Center, while even more businesses are anticipated to open in the city’s other nearby developments.
The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking the passengers and crew hostage more than 50 years ago may have been found.
Sunday marked the 53rd anniversary of the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. aviation history. Now, years after the FBI declared the case inactive, the agency may be having another, informal look, examining evidence that has recently come to light, reports Cowboy State Daily in Wyoming. The evidence is a parachute found in an outbuilding on the family property of Richard McCoy II, whose children have long suspected their father was Cooper, they told the outlet.
As the city of Vancouver weighs a zoning change that would preserve mobile home parks, residents of parks just outside city limits under Clark County’s jurisdiction say they feel left behind. They plan on making a plea to the Clark County Council, or even asking Vancouver to annex their park.
“I do think the county needs to be aware of the issue,” said Janet Easley, an 85-year-old resident of Cascade Park Estates. “It is a concern.”
