“My job is to review every single page and every frame of video on that,” he said. Thurston County Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Jeffery Lippert said his office received a “10-inch binder” full of investigative reports, photos and video evidence on Oct.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, which investigated the incident in partnership with the Region 3 Critical Incident Investigation Team, recently forwarded the results of their review of the shooting to the Thurston County Prosecutor’s Office, sheriff’s office command staff told the Board of Lewis County Commissioners Tuesday. “I had no other means to stop that threat and if he would’ve lifted that gun up and shot at me, I wouldn’t have had any reaction whatsoever,” Deputy Brett Campbell told detectives, as quoted in Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Det. By Natalie Johnson / Thurston County Sheriff’s Office deputy ordered an armed and suicidal man in a parking lot at the Lucky Eagle Casino in Rochester to drop his gun numerous times before fatally shooting him last month, according to investigative reports from the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office obtained by The Chronicle through a public records request.
