New information tonight on the officer-involved shooting in Grants Pass yesterday.
Police say the man approached police with a knife.
We now know the identity of the man who was killed.
Oregon State Police say the man with the knife was 46-year-old Shawn Pappe.
“He was quite a fighter. I mean he wasn’t anybody to mess with,” Pappe’s former neighbor said.
Shawn Pappe’s former neighbor who does not want to be identified says he’s not surprised Pappe confronted police with a knife.
The Grants Pass Department of Public Safety says officers negotiated with Pappe for 20 minutes and tried other non-lethal tactics like tasing him and hitting him with bean bag rounds.
But when Pappe continued toward them, they fired on him.
He was pronounced dead on scene.
“We all had a good rapport I mean we all got along,” the former neighbor said.
Pappe’s former neighbor says Pappe was a nice guy, but he also had another side to him.
“He was a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. But I always felt sorry for him in a way… but yet, it was all his own fault. I mean if he would have stayed off the booze… he’d been okay,” the neighbor said.
The neighbor says there was a time when Pappe tried to light his house on fire.
He says police destroyed the house years later since it wasn’t in good condition.
Now… it’s just an empty lot of dirt.
The officers involved in Thursday’s shooting were not injured, and Oregon State Police say their names are not being released tonight.
We’ll have the latest information on this shooting as new updates become available.
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