News Release from: Oregon State Police
UPDATE: OSP SEEKING PUBLIC'S HELP TO LOCATE DRIVER FOLLOWING ELUDE IN RAINIER AREA (PHOTO)
Posted: August 20th, 2012 4:28 PM
Photo/sound file: http://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2012-08/1002/56937/081812.rainier.elude.JPG
Photo/sound file: http://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2012-08/1002/56937/Mark_Davis.JPG (Mark Davis)
Oregon State Police (OSP) has identified a suspect related to the investigation following a Saturday evening incident in the Rainier area. The suspect eluded OSP and Rainier police after reportedly driving recklessly including going through several residential yards.
OSP is asking for the public's help to locate MARK EVANS DAVIS, age 48. DAVIS is described as a white male, 6'2", 220 pounds, last seen with a long mullet-style haircut and a moustache. He is known to frequent the Rainier and Longview, Washington areas. Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call Oregon State Police Northern Command Center dispatch at 800-452-7888.
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, later identified as DAVIS, 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.
Photographs - Columbia County Sheriff's Office
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