Photo: Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office
Mark Leo Gregory Gago had murdered four people in the home that he shared with his girlfriend. One of the victims was his 9-month-old daughter. According to authorities, he was trying to kill his girlfriend’s 8-year-old daughter when police killed him before he could take the girl’s life.
On 10:15 p.m. on Saturday, sheriff’s deputies responded to a frantic call about a multiple homicide at a home near rural Woodburn, about 20 miles south of Portland. There they found Gago attacking the 8-year-old, theClackamas County Sheriff’s Officesays in a statement.
The 911 call came from inside the home, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Brian Jensentold reporters Sunday, according to theOregonian.
“It was described as a violent and a pretty hectic scene” to dispatchers, he said.
Deputies closed down roads near the home where a man killed four people in a home near rural Woodburn, Oregon.Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office
They heard screams coming from inside the home, where Gago was attacking the girl, he said.
They shot him to save the child’s life, Jensen says. They found three other homicide victims inside the home, he said.
The girl survived and was taken to a local hospital.
The sheriff’s office identified the victims as Olivia Lynn Rose Gago, 9 months; Shaina E. Sweitzer, 31 years old; Pamela Denise Bremer, 64; and Jerry William Bremer, 66, according to the statement.
Sweitzer is Gago’s girlfriend and Pamela Bremer is his mother, the sheriff’s office says, according to the Associated Press. Jerry Bremer is his stepfather, and the girl is Sweitzer’s daughter from a previous relationship.
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A woman described as a roommate who also lived in the home was injured. She was also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“They were not shot,” Jensen told reporters Sunday, according to The Oregonian. “We’re not sure what was used at this time. I’ve been told that there were numerous weapons, swords, things of that nature in the residence. The investigators are trying to determine what exactly was used to kill each person.”
Deputies are reeling from the “horrific” case. “I’ve talked to investigators, 20-year veterans, and they’re saying this is a shocking scene,” Jensen said.
The deputies involved in this incident have been placed on leave pending an investigation of the deadly-force incident — standard procedure in the wake of an officer-involved shooting, the sheriff’s office says in the statement.
Online court records show that Gago was arrested for two prior assaults, in 2005 and in 2001. He was arrested in August for unlawful possession of a firearm, Jensen told The Oregonian.
Calls to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office were not immediately returned.
source: people.com
