News Release from: Oregon State Police
UPDATE: MAN SOUGHT FOLLOWING ELUDE IN RAINIER AREA LOCATED, NO LONGER PERSON OF INTEREST (PHOTO)
Posted: August 21st, 2012 7:32 PM
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Oregon State Police (OSP) has contacted MARK EVANS DAVIS, age 48, related to the investigation of a Saturday evening incident in the Rainier area. He is not longer a person of interest sought related to an incident in which a driver eluded OSP and Rainier police after reportedly driving recklessly including going through several residential yards.
On August 18, 2012 at approximately 7:45 p.m., OSP Fish & Wildlife Trooper Adam Shimer was checking anglers at Dibblee Beach underneath the Lewis and Clark Bridge when he spotted a suspicious green 1990 Chevrolet 2500 pickup parked behind a tree. As the trooper approached the pickup, it left recklessly through the park nearly hitting a child on a bicycle.
The Chevrolet pickup was attempting to elude the trooper who was operating a marked OSP pickup, initially heading toward the bridge where a Rainier police vehicle was positioned to assist. When the pickup's driver spotted the police car he turned back on to Highway 30 away from Rainier before continuing to elude Rainier police and OSP in and around the city of Rainier.
OSP and Rainier police eventually lost sight of the pickup but found it later abandoned in the Rainier watershed area about five miles from Rainier. OSP, Columbia County Sheriff's Office and Rainier police searched the area until darkness without locating its driver.
During the incident, a citizen called 9-1-1 to report a possible gunshot from the fleeing pickup as it traveled along a city street. Upon checking the report, a loaded rifle was found lying on a road.
Anyone with information to positively identify the driver in this case is asked to call Trooper Shimer at (503) 397-0325.
Photographs - Columbia County Sheriff's Office
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