A person suspected of a shooting in Lane County was killed by police along Interstate 5 in Linn County Sunday.
Police say the initial shooting happened in Coburg, and that the victim was critically injured. Deputies and state troopers later spotted the suspect’s vehicle and pursued it northbound on I-5.
The vehicle crashed along the freeway shoulder. Police say shortly after that, state troopers and Linn County deputies shot the suspect and a passenger in the vehicle. The suspect died and the passenger was taken for treatment to a nearby hospital.
Police have not yet said what happened in the moments just before they started shooting. Police have also not released any other information about the victim of the initial shooting, the suspect or the passenger of the suspect vehicle.
The Albany Police Department is investigating.