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Long Beach woman shot dead on beach; Oregon man held for first-degree murder
HTTP://www.chinookobserver.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=30370&Q=31846.08
Web Posted 9/12/2009 2:32:00 PM
East Oregonian Publishing Group
Article :
Updated: Sunday at 2:43 p.m. p.m.
LONG BEACH, Wash. - Police officers watched a man on the crowded beach approach in Long Beach fire a gun and then toss it into the dune grass Friday.
After they arrested him, they made a grisly discovery - the body of a woman nearby.
She had been shot multiple times.
Now more details have emerged since the first announcement of the death, which happened in daylight as thousands of people poured into Long Beach for the annual Rod Run weekend.
The dead woman was named Saturday as Lisa G. Bonney, 45, of Long Beach. She was the mother of two teenage daughters. Her name had been withheld overnight until her family could be informed.
The man who was arrested was named as Brian K. Brush, 47, of Roseburg. He was interrogated then transported to the Pacific County Jail in South Bend, Wash., where he is being held without bail, charged with first-degree murder.
The earliest he will be arraigned in Pacific County Superior Court will be Monday.
Details about Brush's background appear in the archives of the News-Review newspaper in Roseburg.
Brush is known to law enforcement agencies in Oregon. The FBI has investigated him and a business he owns, North River Boats Inc., for allegations of wire fraud earlier this year, according to the News-Review. There are reportedly several lawsuits pending against the company in Douglas County and elsewhere.
The shooting happened in daylight in one of the busiest parts of Long Beach, which is swollen with several thousand visitors during Rod Run.
Chief Flint Wright said three Long Beach police officers were on routine patrol on the Bolstad Beach Approach about 4:40 p.m. Friday when they saw the man about 150 yards away. Scores of other people were on the beach at the time and many called 9-1-1 when they saw the gunman.
"It's tragic," said Wright, told the News-Review. The officers heard a noise and saw the man fire downward. He then threw the gun on to the ground when he saw the officers approaching. They took the man into custody without a struggle.
Then they saw the woman's body.
"It was not until they had him apprehended that they found her," he told the Roseburg newspaper.
Wright said Brush and Bonney were an on-again, off-again couple, but were not living together. Brush is from Roseburg but has a house in Long Beach.
The crime scene - which is right at the center of town -- was secured with help from officers from the Washington State Patrol, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific County Sheriff's Department. Detectives from the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department also assisted.
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WOW!! this hits close to home.. I could have been near this when it happend
Long Beach woman shot dead on beach; Oregon man held for first-degree murder
HTTP://www.chinookobserver.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=30370&Q=31846.08
Web Posted 9/12/2009 2:32:00 PM
East Oregonian Publishing Group
Article :
Updated: Sunday at 2:43 p.m. p.m.
LONG BEACH, Wash. - Police officers watched a man on the crowded beach approach in Long Beach fire a gun and then toss it into the dune grass Friday.
After they arrested him, they made a grisly discovery - the body of a woman nearby.
She had been shot multiple times.
Now more details have emerged since the first announcement of the death, which happened in daylight as thousands of people poured into Long Beach for the annual Rod Run weekend.
The dead woman was named Saturday as Lisa G. Bonney, 45, of Long Beach. She was the mother of two teenage daughters. Her name had been withheld overnight until her family could be informed.
The man who was arrested was named as Brian K. Brush, 47, of Roseburg. He was interrogated then transported to the Pacific County Jail in South Bend, Wash., where he is being held without bail, charged with first-degree murder.
The earliest he will be arraigned in Pacific County Superior Court will be Monday.
Details about Brush's background appear in the archives of the News-Review newspaper in Roseburg.
Brush is known to law enforcement agencies in Oregon. The FBI has investigated him and a business he owns, North River Boats Inc., for allegations of wire fraud earlier this year, according to the News-Review. There are reportedly several lawsuits pending against the company in Douglas County and elsewhere.
The shooting happened in daylight in one of the busiest parts of Long Beach, which is swollen with several thousand visitors during Rod Run.
Chief Flint Wright said three Long Beach police officers were on routine patrol on the Bolstad Beach Approach about 4:40 p.m. Friday when they saw the man about 150 yards away. Scores of other people were on the beach at the time and many called 9-1-1 when they saw the gunman.
"It's tragic," said Wright, told the News-Review. The officers heard a noise and saw the man fire downward. He then threw the gun on to the ground when he saw the officers approaching. They took the man into custody without a struggle.
Then they saw the woman's body.
"It was not until they had him apprehended that they found her," he told the Roseburg newspaper.
Wright said Brush and Bonney were an on-again, off-again couple, but were not living together. Brush is from Roseburg but has a house in Long Beach.
The crime scene - which is right at the center of town -- was secured with help from officers from the Washington State Patrol, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific County Sheriff's Department. Detectives from the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department also assisted.
http://www.chinookobserver.com
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WOW!! this hits close to home.. I could have been near this when it happend