District attorney rules December’s Five Rivers officer-involved shooting death was justified but “a tragedy for all involved”

A 26-year-old man killed by police on a remote Five Rivers farm during a December manhunt shot at an Oregon State Police trooper after mistakenly thinking the officer was the man who had killed his friend hours earlier.

That’s the conclusion of Lane County District Attorney Christopher Parosa after a two-month investigation by the county’s Inter-Agency Deadly Force Investigation Team.

Tyler Holloway, a decorated soldier with the Wyoming National Guard, was living at Prindel Creek Farm in the Five Rivers community when a night of chaos and death erupted late on Dec. 26. Seven hours later he was killed by a single bullet out of 29 fired by three officers…

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