Arrest made in I-5 rock throwing case
SUTHERLIN, Ore. -- A Sutherlin teen is behind bars after state troopers said he was involved in the November rock throwing incident that injured two University of Oregon students.
Oregon State Police troopers said on November 26, 2012, at about 10:40 p.m., Molly Grabill, 20, of Poway, Calif., and her passenger, Chris Brewer, 19, of Vista, Calif., were driving northbound on I-5 when a rock hit their car. Troopers said the rock was larger than a baseball.
Authorities said it was thrown from the overpass at Isadore Road.
Grabill, who was driving, was hit in the face and sustained serious injures.
Brewer grabbed the steering wheel but was unable to keep the car under control as it traveled onto the shoulder and rolled on the freeway. It came to a rest facing the opposite direction.
Detectives from OSP say the investigation and tips from the public led them to Sutherlin teen Matthew Logan McKinney, 19. Authorities say they arrested McKinney at his home following a meeting with detectives.
McKinney was taken to the Douglas County Jail and was charged with second and fourth degree assault, as well as throwing an object off an overpass, among others.
State police said other arrests are pending.
Grabill is a student athlete at the UO. After the incident, university athletic director Rob Mullens urged people with information about the case to contact police.
Looks like someone who would go into a school with assault rifle.
KVAL uses the word "TEEN" which brings about the vision of a pimple faced youth. Â A 19 year old is a young man. The two young men in Coquille that were busted growing pot are also young men of 19. Â How many American MEN of that age are serving our Country right now? Â Put their ages in the story, but not as a (mis) leading headline. Â (I spent my 19th birthday in Saigon in 1971)
Well at least his picture is out there for all to see and pound his arse because the courts are going to give this little bastard probation and stupid crew but if everyone gets a good look at him his days are numbered !!!
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Only $10,000 bail requiring a 10% (ie$1000) to walk? That is about the same as getting caught smoking a dubey!
Sickening...
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good job OSP and thank you to the those that helped
Congratulations to the detectives on this case. Â I thought it would probably never be solved. Â Now throw the book at this scumbag punk.
Don't bring them to Lane County for trial, they'll be free 30 minutes after they arrive. Maybe they should be tied to a tree at the overpass and have anyone who wants ton throw rocks at them. Fourth degree assault implies no injuries needing medical attention. Better upgrade that charge to 1st degree or even attempted murder.
@Aldertree7 ---upgrade it to terrorism. It was already an interstate crime given that the victims were from out of state and/or it was an interstate highway. The FBI should trump up the charges as much as possible to give them leverage or bargaining chips so he snitches out all of the other punks that were doing it for at least the last year.
Halleluja! Detective McNabb finally got this punk. Punks were launching sparkplugs off that bridge a year before that as I was informed by a cop in Roseburg. Punks thought they would graduate from sparkplugs to rocks, then boulders. This kid is not the only one in the gang and it was not his first time doing it, which explains why he finally got caught.                                                                  ×Ö·×Ö°Ö¼××Ö¼×Ö¸×Ö¼
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I hope the miserable little pos goes straight to the state pen where he meets his new bff Buba.
@mackenzie0158 ---At the very least, I hope the authorities can find a way to threaten him with state
pen incarceration until he works off the money for pain and suffering of the victims...which should be
a lifetime of wage garnishment.
Thank Goodness they caught the idiot!
19?, hardly a school boy prank.Â
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What is wrong with people?
@Jason Marks--- Hardly, especially at his age. A rock larger than a baseball is about = to a rock about the size of a softball = stone matter about the same volume of a brick: dropped from a bridge about 10 meters high; traveling at about 10 meters per second G-force acceleration; colliding with the windshield of a vehicle traveling at about 65mph...right in the face of an unsuspecting pretty, bright, athletic, and dedicated UO student in a long, long journey back to school from Southern CA.Â
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Thank God the car did not domino into other vehicles and her passenger was OK. My deepest sympathy to Molly Grabill and her passenger Chris Brewer and prayers for a 110% recovery.
I hope that civil damage$ can be paid in full, and that charitable support has been and will be forthcoming.Â
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