WALDPORT, Ore. — Residents of a small Oregon coastal town waited anxiously Tuesday as police combed a forested peninsula for a man suspected of shooting and critically injuring an officer, leading a gunfire-filled chase and then disappearing into the woods.
Searchers are focused on a peninsula that juts into Alsea Bay and stretches about a mile at its widest point. They're looking for a man believed to be Anthony Durham, 43, of Portland, who is the registered owner of a 1984 Dodge truck stopped for speeding Sunday night by Lincoln City police Officer Steven Dodds.
State police said Durham is considered armed and dangerous and may be accompanied by his 40-pound, black and white dog named Huckleberry.
Dodds, who was officer of the year in 2010 in Lincoln City, was shot multiple times shortly after he stopped Durham's 1984 Dodge truck at 11 p.m. Sunday about 40 miles north of Waldport. He's in critical condition after undergoing surgery.
Other officers caught up with the gunman as he fled the scene and stopped his truck with spike strips in Newport, about 14 miles north of Waldport. Shots were fired at officers, but no one was hit, and the suspect ran into a wooded area and shot at a crab fisherman on a boat in Alsea Bay, near the scenic Waldport Bridge, Newport police Chief Mark Miranda said.
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