A neighbor near the scene of a fatal police officer shooting captured parts of the incident on video. Melanie and Tim Gleason lived down the street from Lawrence Cambra, the man who police said killed Oregon City reserve police officer Robert Libke, who was shot in the head through the face. Libke was responding to a call of a fire at Cambra's house on Sunday when investigators said Cambra shot the volunteer reserve officer. In the clip, you can hear gunshots from the SWAT officers who fired at Cambra, who was killed by the SWAT officers. Shortly after those shots, officers yelled for a waiting ambulance to pull up and a number of other officers quickly loaded an fatally injured Libke into the back. Libke was transferred to a LifeFlight helicopter and flown to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland. He later died from his injuries. More info under the clip about the events leading up to the shooting .....The suspect, 88-year-old Lawrence Cambra, was shot during a confrontation with SWAT team officers after shooting Libke, investigators said. He died at the scene, a Clackamas County Sheriff's Office spokesman said. The shooting and fire happened at 841 Linn Avenue in Oregon City around 1 p.m. Josh Wenzel, who lives across the street, said he saw the house on fire and he tried to help rescue Cambra. He said Cambra was holding a revolver and told Wenzel he'd set his own house on fire. "I asked him what was going on," Wenzel said. "He said something like he did it or 'I set the fire.' At that point I was going to pull him away. He was kind of out of his mind." Brandon Paxton with Clackamas Fire said that when firefighters arrived, police told them to stay back because there was an armed suspect inside the home. Wenzel said after he got away from the house, he screamed at neighbors that Cambra had a gun. Soon, police arrived. "I saw an officer pull up," Wenzel said. "He was saying, 'drop your gun.' He had his gun ready but he said 'drop your gun' again, and at the same time, that's when he was shot in the head. And I was watching from our front porch about 20 feet away." Police evacuated neighboring homes and closed streets while the SWAT team searched for the suspect. The SWAT team drove an armored vehicle near the house to give police cover to rescue Libke, who was wounded on the ground. The two Clackamas County deputies involved in shooting Cambra are Detective Sergeant Matt Swanson and Deputy Jesse Unck. Both are SWAT team members. Sergeant Swanson has been with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office for more than 13 years and Deputy Unck is a four-year veteran. Both are on paid administrative leave, which is standard protocol for this type of incident. Fire investigators are looking into how the fire started. The sheriff's office says the investigation should take another 24-48 hours. Sgt. Dan Kraus says investigators are still trying to determine a motive but don't believe the fire was set lure police into an ambush. Libke was the first Oregon City police officer to be shot in the line of duty since 1906, the sheriff's office said.

• published: 05 Nov 2013
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