The Wasco County District Attorney’s Office has concluded a police officer was justified when he used deadly force while responding to reports of a 77-year-old man in The Dalles firing weapons at a neighbor’s house. In a report released Monday afternoon, it was announced District Attorney Eric Nisley will not convene a grand jury to review the death of James Virl Young. An investigation found Young fired at The Dalles Police, Oregon State Police, and Wasco County Sheriff’s officers when they arrived at his home on East 10th Street late in the evening on March 16 and found him continuing to fire shots. Officers took cover and yelled multiple times for Young to put the rifle down, but he continued to yell at them and fired his weapon multiple times at the direction of the officers, and when one officer observed Young raising his rifle back up towards them he fired twice, fatally wounding the man. The report shows information from family members and neighbors made it apparent Young suffered from mental illness, and his actions were either caused or a result of that. A neighbor heard noises and observed Young shooting his gun at the house, and when he told Young to stop Young pointed a rifle at him, at which point the neighbor moved away from the window and called 9-1-1. Investigators later found multiple shots had been fired into the kitchen area of the neighbor’s home, and recovered from Young’s porch two rifles and multiple shell casings along with bullet fragments from various locations.