SWAT team finds man holed up in hotel room dead
REEDSPORT, Ore. - A SWAT team found a man wanted for questioning dead after a daylong standoff at a hotel.
Police surrounded a motel Wednesday as officers negotiated with the man.
Police used a key from the front desk to unlock the door and enter the room around 1:30 p.m.
An officer and a dog went in, followed by another officer.
The man fired at least one shot.
The Oregon State Police SWAT team responded to the scene. KVAL News took several calls from viewers reported at least a dozen police vehicles headed south on Interstate 5 on Wednesday afternoon. KVAL News confirmed the police are responding to Reedsport.
When the SWAT entered the room, they found the man dead.
Highway 101/Winchester Avenue was closed from 21st to 22nd around 2:45 p.m. until around 6 p.m. in the vicinity of the Fir Grove Motel, 2178 Winchester Ave.
A nearby school locked down while police handle the situation.
Officers from Oregon State Police, Douglas County Sheriff's Office and Coos Bay Police Department are assisting the Reedsport Police Department at the scene.
KCBY News has a crew at the scene. This story will be updated as information becomes available.
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I am absolutely amazed, shocked, and thoroughly discusted by the negative and ignorant opinions and cirticism being leveled against the Oregon State Patrol Officers who were heading south bound today on I-5A. I am a sworn police officer. I was off duty and driving north bound on I-5 today in my personal vehicle and witnessed the dozen or more police cars "running code-3" south bound. Having responded to "active shooter" calls myself, I immediately understood the sense of dread and impending danger along with the overwhelming awareness of the awesome responsibility that driving skills and the potential need to discharge weapons at another human being filled the minds of those Troopers. I praise God that we live in a country and a state where we have such courageous and well trained law enforcement officers who are willing to rush to the aid of a community and its local police force and willingly place their own lives in danger in the service of that community.Â
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No law enforcement officer that I know takes those responsibilities lightly. No public agency who employees, trains, and swears those officers to loyal service takes those responsibilities lightly. I'd rather be on the freeway with hunderds of police officers running code than I would with the average highway hot rodders dirving their high powered modern road rockets, with their limited skills, distracted phone chatting, famished fast-food consumption, and howling toddlers. Â
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We are so fortunate that we have those Oregon State Police Officers and the other Officers who responded to that incident today.  I know I join many others citizens in saying, "Thank you!" to each and every one of them and to every other police officer who each and every day assures our safety and safe guards our liberties.Â
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Proud to be a member of that thin blue line!
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I sure didn't say anything disrespectful toward officers in my post.  Your post officer, ignores the issue of sending more than twenty vehicles south "code" condition, which cost taxpayers THOUSANDS of DOLLARS.  You must be part of the police administration based on your abilty to completely sidestep the real issue here (wasted taxpayer dollars) and feign being personally insulted by our opinions.
@Patriot & Police Officer As a former peace officer I would agree with you on lots of things, but if OSP did in fact dispatch 20 vehicles to Reedsport, or even 10 vehicles, that seems excessive to me. It tells me that OSP thinks that there is not enough adequately trained officers in that area to handle the situation (does not say much for BPST) or they were operating on eroneous information. The situation was apparently contained. I wonder about some of the tactics used these days. There were no Unions in my day and there was no comp time, or overtime for that matter. I can recall prison riots that did not call for that much attention. One thing we did have was dedicated hard working courageous officers that were told before they were ever hired that it was a tough and thankless job. So that comes with the territory. I don't know what you were told before you went into law enforcement, or maybe you are one of those that once in disregarded what you were told. Now days you guys have better everything, and still complain. I realize it is still a tough and thankless job, and takes a special personality , a tough skin, and nerves of steel to do it. If you don't possess those qualities you might be better off to find other work.
Why is it always necessary to put schools in "lock down" when the perp is locked in the bathroom with SWAT teams and 20 State Troopers and Good knows how many other cops around? Is this to make the teachers feel like they ACTUALLY have the children in mind?
 @the buttcut Lockdown is necessary when you have an active shooter (already shot at police) because rounds penetrate walls and can travel a long way.  Always better to err on the side of caution, especially when children are potential victims.
He locked himself in the BATHROOM?? Did he think they wouldn't be able to locate him? What an idiot!!
They sure as heck are "ON THE WAY"   OVER TWENTY State Police vehicles traveling South on I-5 toward this incident (seen at Brownsville) at over 90 miles per hour. Tell me folks, since when does it make sense to send over 20 police vehicles from Salem or somewhere else North of Eugene, all the way (nearly) to COOS BAY for one active shooter? This is an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars and eventually, heads should roll for this kind of decision making. I am all for overwhelming police presence when lives are in danger, but tell me, how many cops of various shapes and sizes must be in the vicinity of Reedsport already?   How many are required to wear down and cuff one guy in a hotel room?  Note to Oregon State Police: STOP WASTING OUR MONEY!!!