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It took only minutes from Owen Evan Nicholson’s killing of two people in a coastal Oregon town, Friday morning, authorities said.
Although police in the small community of North Bend weren’t far from him, the next time they heard about Nicholson’s final whereabouts was 48 hours later, police said during public statements this week.
The suspect in the triple murder – whose alleged victims included his father – quietly turned himself in Sunday to police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a city more than 2,000 miles away.
After Nicholson killed three people in Oregon, police there said, the 30-year-old forced a woman to take him to the Midwest and then lived to tell us.
“There’s always a sigh of relief when a suspect is in custody,” North Bend Police Chief Robert Kappelman said during a news conference.
Police in Springfield, Oregon, a city 110 miles northeast of North Bend, said Nicholson approached Laura Johnson Friday during her lunch break in her work parking lot and forced her to take him to Wisconsin at the end of an outlaw spree.
Springfield police said Nicholson forced Laura to drive him north. They continued all the way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Nicholson was captured without incident. Laura is safe and sound on her way back to Oregon.
Official fees for this issue are pending. Police said Nicholson is being held in Wisconsin on the orders of an Oregon fugitive.
KEZI in Eugene, Oregon, reports that Johnson’s father, Dennis Johnson, said his daughter was kidnapped at gunpoint and drove Nicholson for more than 30 hours, gaining access to his ear during a long and harrowing drive.
“She was able to get him to turn himself in,” Johnson told KEZI.
Johnson, 34, declined to comment on Tuesday. Police in Oregon and Milwaukee did not respond to requests for comment.
Cos County District Attorney Paul Fraser said during public statements Friday that authorities began receiving 911 calls shortly before 10 a.m. about an elderly couple who had been run over by a pickup truck at the RV campground at The Mill Casino.
Frasier said that while behind the wheel of his father’s 2019 Dodge pickup, Nicholson hit a Florida couple — Anthony Oyster, 74, who was killed, and Linda Oyster, 73, who was seriously injured. The condition of the oysters Tuesday is unknown.
Just minutes later, Fraser said, Nicholson was at a marijuana dispensary about a mile north of the RV campground and authorities were responding to the shooting there. Fraser said Jennifer L. Davidson, 47, was killed in the shooting.
Nicholson is also suspected of killing his father. Fraser said Charles Sims Nicholson, 83, was found dead in a trailer on the RV campground.
Nicholson has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and failure to assist an injured person in a traffic accident.
Fraser said he believes Nicholson abandoned his father’s pickup truck after the infirmary shooting. Fraser said authorities found the truck on a highway between Eugene and Florence.
“It was found smashed and cremated,” Fraser said. “We have a witness indicating that the person driving this truck got off the truck, appeared armed with a gun, then disappeared or ran into the woods or nearby brush.”
On Sunday, Fraser said authorities would quickly try to extradite Nicholson to Oregon. Fraser said he believed Nicholson had lived in North Bend since October.
North Bend Mayor Jessica Engelk said this week that Nicholson’s alleged violent outburst was tragic and hard to understand.
“Words fall short of describing the tragedy that occurred on Friday and the events that followed,” Engelke said. “It left us all incredibly shaken. This is something you hope will never happen in your community, in the city you call home.”
Antonio Planas
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