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Jordan Laird Case

by Trench on October 26th, 2006

Screams, terror and a battle:
This one is more than a little freaky�

TUALATIN — The movie had ended, her 8-year-old daughter was asleep, and Sally had dozed off on the couch to the drone of “That ’70s Show.” Around midnight Sunday, she awoke with a start: A man she had never seen before was standing over her.

The man, whom police identified Tuesday as Jordan Laird Case, 20, had slipped into the Southwest Tualatin Road apartment through the unlocked front door. He lived in the building next door, where police found marijuana plants, psychedelic mushrooms and a mescaline-making operation.

He was skinny, said Sally, 29, who asked that her last name not be used to protect the privacy and welfare of herself and her daughter. He had a scruffy face that looked as if he hadn’t shaved in a while. His hands, palms down, were hovering just above her body, “like he was trying to feel the energy,” she recalled later.

She grabbed her cell phone and backed into a corner of her living room, pleading for him to leave. After dialing 9-1-1, Sally slowly moved into the hallway near the kitchen. The man paced between the couch and the door. Finally, he flopped onto the couch, curled up in a fetal position and began nuzzling the pillows.

“Please get out, please get out,” Sally begged him. “Why are you doing this? You’ve gotta leave.”

Sally said the man grabbed a pillow, hesitated, then threw it at her. She screamed and backed into the kitchen. He followed her, mumbling, “sorry, sorry, sorry.” He lay down on the floor.

“Are you on drugs?” she asked. She said he replied that he was high on mushrooms.

Hearing the noise, Sally’s daughter padded into the hallway. Sally ordered her back to her room, then grabbed a kitchen knife out of a drawer. She jumped over the man, ran into her daughter’s bedroom and slammed the door, pressing her petite frame against it to hold it shut.

Her daughter was on the top bunk bed, screaming. The man was struggling to get in. Sally told the 9-1-1 dispatcher she didn’t know how long she could hold on.

Then the man burst into the bedroom. Sally threw the knife on the bed, terrified that if she stabbed him, “it wouldn’t work. I thought, ‘My daughter’s not gonna watch me die.’ ”

The man pinned Sally against the door and began biting her arm, shoulder and hands. She managed to pry open the door, yelling at her daughter to go to the neighbors. That’s when the girl did something her mother will never forget.

She began punching the man in the head, shouting, ‘Get off my mommy! Let my mommy go!’ ”

The man moved to push the girl out of the way, and Sally went on the attack. She clocked him on the head with her cell phone, snapping it in two. He fell to the ground. She started kicking him, and he grabbed her by the calves. They rolled across the floor.

Finally, Sally managed to pin the 5-foot, 7-inch Case on his back. She closed her right hand around his windpipe and squeezed. “I thought, oh my God, I’m gonna kill him. I’ve gotta let go,” Sally said. From the corner of her eye, she saw a police officer. She grabbed her daughter and ran to the back patio.

The police left the apartment, guns drawn. The man followed. Sally ran back inside, locked the front door and watched everything unfold from the living room window. She saw a flash of light, heard a series of pops and saw a cloud of smoke. Case’s body slumped to the ground.

A Washington County sheriff’s deputy and Tualatin and Sherwood police officers fired beanbag rounds and Tasers at Case but weren’t able to subdue him. He was killed when a deputy shot him as he reached inside the deputy’s car and tried to grab a gun locked in the front seat. An autopsy showed Case died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Thanks to K we have Case’s MySpace. I hate to speak ill of the dead but he must have been on drugs when he designed that MySpace.

Also let that be a lesson to you kids. Drugs can get you killed.

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