2/1/2024
Salem, OR. – Jamie Eugene Thomason is in police custody and has been charged by the Marion County District Attorney’s Office with the following:
- First degree attempted murder with a firearm, two counts
- First degree assault with a firearm, two counts
- Felon in possession of a firearm
Police had previously arrested Robert Josh, Jr., age 62 of Springfield, for his suspected involvement in the shooting. Andrew William Beebe, age 28 of Eugene, was also arrested on an outstanding parole violation warrant. Josh was charged with:
- Second-degree attempted murder
- First-degree assault
- Unlawful use of a weapon, firearm
On January 29th, 2024, Salem Police officers responded to the call of a shooting in the parking lot of the Fred Meyer Store at 3740 Market ST NE. Responding officers initially located two adult individuals, a woman and man, both age 30, with gunshot wounds in the store’s parking lot. Officers also located a second man, age 28, with a gunshot wound inside the Elmer’s Restaurant, east of the store’s parking lot. All were transported to Salem Health with varying injuries.
The three people injured were later identified. The woman, 30-year-old Julia Thea Dora Dorfler of Eugene, sustained multiple gunshot wounds and remains hospitalized. Two men, 30-year-old Jamie Eugene Thomason and 28-year-old Chance Taylor Brason Towlerton, both of Springfield, also sustained gunshot wounds. Thomason remains in the hospital, and Towlerton was treated and released.
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