Beavercreek, Oregon

From Portland’s KGW.com of July 16, 2006

Beavercreek storeowner shoots alleged burglar

A storeowner shot and wounded a 16-year-old in the back side after he tried to rob his Beavercreek store Saturday night and helped nab another man, sheriff's deputies said.

The alleged burglar remains hospitalized and a second suspect, Jamal James Shihadeh, 18, was charged with first-degree burglary, said Detective James Strovink, a spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

Bail was set at $50,000. Shihadeh is scheduled to be arraigned at 3 p.m. July 17th in the Clackamas County Circuit Court.

Police said Robert Finke, the owner of Clarks General Store on South Beavercreek Road, and a neighbor heard breaking glass around 11 p.m. Saturday night and ran to the store, confronting two burglars inside.

The owner held one suspect at gunpoint inside the store, then ordered him to the front porch of the store where he told him to empty his pockets with items stolen from the store, Strovink said.

Shihadeh, who had initially fled the burglary scene, returned to the store and said he was armed with a gun. Both suspects ran from the store, with Finke and his neighbor Travis Wilber in hot pursuit.

Investigators said one of suspects fired several rounds from a weapon, but no one was hit.

Finke, who was armed with a shotgun, shot the 16-year-old suspect once in the rear end with a buckshot load type of ammunition.

The suspect was later airlifted to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland.

When Clackamas County Sheriff's deputies arrived on the scene, Shihadeh was found and taken into custody.

Finke and Wilber were not injured.