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BANDON, Ore. (AP) _ Just out of jail, a man with a long criminal record entered a trailer park and went on a killing spree, slashing the throats of a couple, their two young children and a visiting uncle, police said.
Before he died Thursday, Ray Jacobs, 37, staggered across the gravel street seeking help from the manager of the small trailer park. Less than two hours after the bodies were found, police used a tracking dog to lead them to a suspect in nearby woods. Girley Logsdon Crum, 34, was charged with five counts of murder and jailed without bail.
A clerk at a market next to the trailer court said he had argued with Crum the night before the slayings and that Crum appeared to be drunk or on drugs.
Crum was expected to be arraigned today in Coos County District Court. Investigators took two knives from the trailer house as evidence, Willis said.
Police said they had no motive for the killings; they described Crum as an acquaintance of the family but gave no other details.
It was the state's worst mass killing since 1977, when six people were gunned down outside a Klamath Falls nightclub.
Jacobs, a fish processor and longtime volunteer fireman, had worked the night shift at Bandon Bay Fisheries cleaning shrimp until about 3 a.m., said Graydon Stinnett, the plant's general manager.
''He was the kind of guy who just really didn't bother anybody, kind of quiet. I mean just an all-around nice guy. I don't think he'd hurt a fly,″ Stinnett said.
In 1995, the Jacobs family was written up in the local weekly newspaper and showered with gifts after Christopher became the first baby born in 1995 in this coastal town of 2,400.
Dave McDonald, the clerk at the market, said Crum had been in to buy beer and had argued with a customer and berated a woman in the store. Crum and McDonald argued when the clerk threatened to call the sheriff.
After McDonald got off work, Crum was waiting outside. ''He was there but I just got in my pickup and left,″ McDonald said.
Crum had been released from the county jail on Monday after serving 21 days for a parole violation. His arrests and conviction record includes burglary, assault, robbery, drunken driving and resisting arrest.
He served four years in prison for attacking a man with a screwdriver during a robbery, and was released from prison in 1993.
His 1988 conviction labeled him a violent offender, but authorities did not feel he posed an imminent threat.
''There was nothing that gave any indication of escalating criminal activity,″ said Diane Middle, a member of the state's parole board.
BANDON, Ore. (AP) _ Just out of jail, a man with a long criminal record entered a trailer park and went on a killing spree, slashing the throats of a couple, their two young children and a visiting uncle, police said.
Before he died Thursday, Ray Jacobs, 37, staggered across the gravel street seeking help from the manager of the small trailer park. Less than two hours after the bodies were found, police used a tracking dog to lead them to a suspect in nearby woods. Girley Logsdon Crum, 34, was charged with five counts of murder and jailed without bail.
A clerk at a market next to the trailer court said he had argued with Crum the night before the slayings and that Crum appeared to be drunk or on drugs.
Crum was expected to be arraigned today in Coos County District Court. Investigators took two knives from the trailer house as evidence, Willis said.
Police said they had no motive for the killings; they described Crum as an acquaintance of the family but gave no other details.
It was the state's worst mass killing since 1977, when six people were gunned down outside a Klamath Falls nightclub.
Jacobs, a fish processor and longtime volunteer fireman, had worked the night shift at Bandon Bay Fisheries cleaning shrimp until about 3 a.m., said Graydon Stinnett, the plant's general manager.
''He was the kind of guy who just really didn't bother anybody, kind of quiet. I mean just an all-around nice guy. I don't think he'd hurt a fly,″ Stinnett said.
In 1995, the Jacobs family was written up in the local weekly newspaper and showered with gifts after Christopher became the first baby born in 1995 in this coastal town of 2,400.
Dave McDonald, the clerk at the market, said Crum had been in to buy beer and had argued with a customer and berated a woman in the store. Crum and McDonald argued when the clerk threatened to call the sheriff.
After McDonald got off work, Crum was waiting outside. ''He was there but I just got in my pickup and left,″ McDonald said.
Crum had been released from the county jail on Monday after serving 21 days for a parole violation. His arrests and conviction record includes burglary, assault, robbery, drunken driving and resisting arrest.
He served four years in prison for attacking a man with a screwdriver during a robbery, and was released from prison in 1993.
His 1988 conviction labeled him a violent offender, but authorities did not feel he posed an imminent threat.
''There was nothing that gave any indication of escalating criminal activity,″ said Diane Middle, a member of the state's parole board.
Volunteer Firefighter
BANDON, Ore. (AP) _ Just out of jail, a man with a long criminal record entered a trailer park and went on a killing spree, slashing the throats of a couple, their two young children and a visiting uncle, police said.
Before he died Thursday, Ray Jacobs, 37, staggered across the gravel street seeking help from the manager of the small trailer park. Less than two hours after the bodies were found, police used a tracking dog to lead them to a suspect in nearby woods. Girley Logsdon Crum, 34, was charged with five counts of murder and jailed without bail.
A clerk at a market next to the trailer court said he had argued with Crum the night before the slayings and that Crum appeared to be drunk or on drugs.
Crum was expected to be arraigned today in Coos County District Court. Investigators took two knives from the trailer house as evidence, Willis said.
Police said they had no motive for the killings; they described Crum as an acquaintance of the family but gave no other details.
It was the state's worst mass killing since 1977, when six people were gunned down outside a Klamath Falls nightclub.
Jacobs, a fish processor and longtime volunteer fireman, had worked the night shift at Bandon Bay Fisheries cleaning shrimp until about 3 a.m., said Graydon Stinnett, the plant's general manager.
''He was the kind of guy who just really didn't bother anybody, kind of quiet. I mean just an all-around nice guy. I don't think he'd hurt a fly,″ Stinnett said.
In 1995, the Jacobs family was written up in the local weekly newspaper and showered with gifts after Christopher became the first baby born in 1995 in this coastal town of 2,400.
Dave McDonald, the clerk at the market, said Crum had been in to buy beer and had argued with a customer and berated a woman in the store. Crum and McDonald argued when the clerk threatened to call the sheriff.
After McDonald got off work, Crum was waiting outside. ''He was there but I just got in my pickup and left,″ McDonald said.
Crum had been released from the county jail on Monday after serving 21 days for a parole violation. His arrests and conviction record includes burglary, assault, robbery, drunken driving and resisting arrest.
He served four years in prison for attacking a man with a screwdriver during a robbery, and was released from prison in 1993.
His 1988 conviction labeled him a violent offender, but authorities did not feel he posed an imminent threat.
''There was nothing that gave any indication of escalating criminal activity,″ said Diane Middle, a member of the state's parole board.
BANDON, Ore. (AP) _ Just out of jail, a man with a long criminal record entered a trailer park and went on a killing spree, slashing the throats of a couple, their two young children and a visiting uncle, police said.
Before he died Thursday, Ray Jacobs, 37, staggered across the gravel street seeking help from the manager of the small trailer park. Less than two hours after the bodies were found, police used a tracking dog to lead them to a suspect in nearby woods. Girley Logsdon Crum, 34, was charged with five counts of murder and jailed without bail.
A clerk at a market next to the trailer court said he had argued with Crum the night before the slayings and that Crum appeared to be drunk or on drugs.
Crum was expected to be arraigned today in Coos County District Court. Investigators took two knives from the trailer house as evidence, Willis said.
Police said they had no motive for the killings; they described Crum as an acquaintance of the family but gave no other details.
It was the state's worst mass killing since 1977, when six people were gunned down outside a Klamath Falls nightclub.
Jacobs, a fish processor and longtime volunteer fireman, had worked the night shift at Bandon Bay Fisheries cleaning shrimp until about 3 a.m., said Graydon Stinnett, the plant's general manager.
''He was the kind of guy who just really didn't bother anybody, kind of quiet. I mean just an all-around nice guy. I don't think he'd hurt a fly,″ Stinnett said.
In 1995, the Jacobs family was written up in the local weekly newspaper and showered with gifts after Christopher became the first baby born in 1995 in this coastal town of 2,400.
Dave McDonald, the clerk at the market, said Crum had been in to buy beer and had argued with a customer and berated a woman in the store. Crum and McDonald argued when the clerk threatened to call the sheriff.
After McDonald got off work, Crum was waiting outside. ''He was there but I just got in my pickup and left,″ McDonald said.
Crum had been released from the county jail on Monday after serving 21 days for a parole violation. His arrests and conviction record includes burglary, assault, robbery, drunken driving and resisting arrest.
He served four years in prison for attacking a man with a screwdriver during a robbery, and was released from prison in 1993.
His 1988 conviction labeled him a violent offender, but authorities did not feel he posed an imminent threat.
''There was nothing that gave any indication of escalating criminal activity,″ said Diane Middle, a member of the state's parole board.
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