-Police search homes for Oregon shooting suspect
WALDPORT, Ore. — A team hunting a man accused of shooting an Oregon police officer believe he's holed up in a vacation home in a secluded neighborhood less than a block from the Pacific Ocean.
It's the latest theory by local and state police on the whereabouts of David Anthony Durham, a 43-year-old former landscaper.
The places left unsearched are mostly locked properties, the rentals and second homes of people who return to coastal Oregon when the weather turns warm. They're also the places that the search team can't go, unless they see signs of life or signs of a break-in.
With the manhunt moving past the fifth day, searchers are focusing on a 3-square-mile strip of land that pokes into the Pacific Ocean. It has dedicated 25 members of the Oregon State Police SWAT team to around the clock patrols of the area and checks on the houses on the peninsula.
Newport Police Chief Mark Miranda said he didn't escape by the Pacific Ocean or the Alsea River. "He wouldn't last more than five minutes in this water," Miranda said.
Miranda said the search won't end until Durham is caught or gives up.
"He's probably waiting for us to leave, but we're not leaving," Miranda said.
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