Four-wheeler vs. 12 gauge: Police say miner shot driver
KERBY, Ore. (AP) — A miner fired a 12-gauge shotgun and wounded a man who was part of a group people using four-wheel-drive vehicles in the woods, according to authorities in Southern Oregon.
Ronald Eugene Spears was jailed on an assault charge after a confrontation with Gregory Graybill of Gold Hill.
Graybill was reported in serious condition Monday at a Medford hospital with a wounded arm.
The incident happened on U.S. Forest Service land near U.S. 199 at the mining claim where the 61-year-old Spears lives.
The Josephine County sheriff's department says there were about half a dozen of the trucks on forest roads Sunday afternoon.
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