A Wasco County grand jury found two Wasco County Sheriff’s Deputies and a City of The Dalles police officer were justified in fatally shooting at a man who was driving a stolen boom truck towards them on West 6th Street early in the morning of June 18 after the truck had rammed a City patrol car during a pursuit. Wasco County District Attorney Matthew Ellis made the announcement that the grand jury found the use of force that resulted in the death of 68-year-old Augustus Law was justified and not criminal under Oregon law. Ellis said in the early morning hours of June 18 Law was spotted by sheriff’s deputies driving the boom truck without lights and dragging a tow cable. The deputies attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but Law attempted to run them off the road and tried to hit other police and sheriff’s vehicles during the pursuit, eventually ramming a City patrol car, at which point the officers fired their weapons, leading to the truck coming to a stop. Law died a short time later at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.