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The family of a Josephine County man shot and killed by Oregon State Police troopers in 2015 announced they had settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the state for $1.6 million and an apology.
The Boxes' property SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline) – A widow will get her chance to prove the Oregon State Police should not have employed a trooper with a history of “tunnel vision” and being on edge because it was foreseeable that he would kill someone someday. In 2015, two troopers were called to the house of Robert Box by his wheelchair-bound daughter, who he had struck several times in the face during an argument while Robert’s wife Bernadette was out of town. After she left for the hospital, they tried to silently make their way toward Box’s property....