A 60-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty Friday, March 20, to what a judge called the “inexplicable” shooting deaths of his parents at their shared home northeast of Springfield.
Christopher Allan Turner must serve a minimum of 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole, Lane County Circuit Judge Charles Zennaché said Friday.
Turner’s sister and nephew discovered the bodies of Paul Allan Turner, 89, and Beverly Jean Turner, 84, on Feb. 23, 2025, said Matthew Wojcik, a prosecutor with the Lane County District Attorney’s office. Turner lived with his parents on the 36000 block of McGowan Creek Road in the Mohawk area…