Sheriff’s deputies shoot, kill Tualatin intruder

The Tualatin, Sherwood and Washington County officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave

The Times, Oct 26, 2006, Updated Oct 30, 2009

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TUALATIN — The Tualatin apartment of a home-invader killed Sunday by a Washington County Sheriff’s deputy was full of drugs and drug-making equipment, according to sheriff’s officials.

Five to six marijuana plants, psychedelic mushrooms, a recipe for mescaline and chemicals consistent with the manufacture of mescaline, were all reportedly seized from the apartment of Jordan Laird Case on Tuesday afternoon.

Sgt. David Thompson, public information officer for the sheriff’s office, noted that investigators are still awaiting lab confirmation of the drugs seized from Case’s apartment in the 12000 block of Tualatin Road.

Case, 20, was shot and killed early Sunday morning by a sheriff’s deputy after allegedly breaking into a neighbor’s apartment in the Woodridge Apartment complex, assaulting her in front of her 8-year-old daughter, running from police and then trying to grab a rifle that was mounted inside a deputy’s patrol vehicle.

Autopsy results have not been released on Case, which is expected to include a toxicology report to determine if Case was under the influence of drugs at the time of his death.

According to an initial press release from the sheriff’s office, a 29-year-old woman awoke just before midnight on Saturday to find an intruder in her apartment. After asking the intruder, Case, to leave, the woman reportedly ran to a back bedroom where her 8-year-old daughter was located and called 9-1-1.

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