Teen killed by deputies in Tigard was shot multiple times
12:31 PM PDT on Tuesday, September 19, 2006
TIGARD -- An 18-year-old killed by police in Tigard last weekend died of multiple gunshot wounds, an autopsy confirmed Tuesday.
Photo courtesy of The Oregonian.
Luke Glenn.
The Multnomah County Medical Examiner declined to specify where and how many times Lukus Glenn was shot.
However, a torrent of shots can be heard ringing out in the unedited recording of a 9-1-1 call from the teen’s mother to police dispatchers.
“They shot him… they killed him,” a stunned and crying Hope Glenn told the dispatcher who had assured her that deputies didn’t want to hurt her son and would try to talk with him.
But did they try to talk with the teen described by his mother as extremely drunk and irrational?
Much of the dialogue between Lukus Glenn and responding deputies is impossible to decipher on the tape. What can be clearly heard is a shouting match between the 18-year-old and the deputies called to help bring the situation under control.
Lukus Glenn can be heard repeatedly swearing at deputies and refusing to cooperate while deputies can be heard yelling at the teen to drop his knife.
A short time later, gunfire erupts.
Earlier, Hope Glenn told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that her son was smashing car windows, busting doors and threatening to kill people and himself.
Lukus Glenn’s friends, who witnessed the escalating pandemonium, said deputies never tried to calm him down, but started yelling at him and threatening to shoot from the start.
Sgt. David Thompson, a spokesman for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, declined comment on how events unfolded, citing the pending investigation.
He did say, however, that the deputies who killed Lukus Glenn shot him, “believing that he presented a lethal threat to the occupants of the residence that Mr. Glenn was attempting to enter.”
That residence was Lukus Glenn’s home.
The deputies who fatally shot him were identified as Mikhail Gerba, 27, and Timothy Mateski, 26. Gerba has been with the WCSO since 2002 and works as a deputy in the patrol division. Mateski has been with the WCSO since 2004 and works as a deputy in the same division.
Per standard procedure in police-involved shootings, both were placed on paid administrative leave pending the investigation.
Officer Andrew Pastore with the Tigard Police Department fired beanbag rounds before the deputies began shooting. The beanbag rounds had little effect on Lukus Glenn, Thompson said.
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