FLORENCE, Ore. — Around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, a Lane County Sheriff’s deputy located a suspicious pickup parked on Herman Cape Road in U.S. Forest Service land north of Florence.
The deputy contacted the driver and passenger. The driver, Tyler Ashton Leavitt, 41, of Indiana, had a warrant for his arrest out of Indiana for Disarming Law Enforcement, Criminal Recklessness, and Resisting Law Enforcement.
When deputies attempted to arrest Leavitt, he accelerated the pickup in the direction of a deputy on the narrow forest road, striking a patrol car. Fearing for the deputy’s life, a second deputy fired at Leavitt. However, he was not struck. The first deputy was able to dive out of the way of the pickup…