Jeffrey Dean Turpin

Deadly force

Turpin arrived in a Scappoose residential neighborhood at 2 a.m. shirtless, barefoot, armed with a handgun and draped with an American flag. He was intercepted and questioned but--oddly--not brought into custody by local police, leaving him free to roam and then knock on the door of a Portland officer. The officer had been warned about Turpin and had gathered his family in their basement laundry. After a verbal exchange the officer fatally shot him through the door and side window.