FAIR USE:
Notice this guy tried house after house till he found one that had an unarmed victim. Too bad one of the previous armed citizens didn’t shoot the B’d! Personally, I hope he does end up committing suicide before the police get to him. Save taxpayers money of having to put him thru the (in)justice system.

Suspect shot in fatal spree near Lebanon eludes police
A shooting that leaves one man dead continues with a series of break-ins and armed confrontations at rural residences

Thursday, November 18, 1999
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By Matt Sabo, Correspondent, The Oregonian

A man who is suspected of fatally shooting one Sweet Home resident and seriously wounding another before terrorizing a rural Lebanon neighborhood Tuesday night evaded capture despite being shot in the chest.

Law enforcement officials in Linn County and Sweet Home characterize Marc M. Holcomb Jr., 28, as armed and dangerous. Holcomb allegedly shot two men in Sweet Home and then was shot in the chest by a teen-age boy after breaking into the boy’s residence.

Holcomb allegedly shot the two brothers, Dean F. Pruitt, 53, and John O. Pruitt, 54, at their mother’s residence in the 1900 block of W Street, Sweet Home Police Chief Bob Burford said.

The 7:30 p.m. shooting may have started out as a drug-related argument, Burford said. Holcomb allegedly shot the two men in the abdomen with a semi-automatic handgun.

Dean Pruitt died about 10:45 p.m. in Lebanon Community Hospital. John Pruitt was in critical condition in the intensive care unit in Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis.

At 8:35 p.m. the Linn County sheriff’s emergency dispatch center began receiving calls of an intruder armed with a handgun breaking into homes in the 37000 block of Rock Hill Drive, near Lebanon.

Holcomb allegedly began forcing his way into homes and trying to steal a vehicle, according to Linn County Sheriff David Burright. At the second home, Holcomb allegedly fired several rounds into the house through the front door before confronting a teen-age boy.

The boy locked himself in a room and escaped. At another home, Holcomb allegedly confronted a 16-year-old boy who was home with a 7-year-old brother.

The teen-ager grabbed a .22-caliber rifle and shot Holcomb in the upper chest, Burright said. Holcomb ran across the road and confronted residents of two more homes but lost his handgun in the process, authorities said.

After getting shot, Holcomb allegedly ran to Nancy Rabine’s home and pounded on her front door. Rabine refused to let him in and grabbed a 9 mm handgun. He went to another door at the house and smashed out a small window near the doorknob and reached inside for the handle, she said.

“I told him I had a gun and told him I would use it if he didn’t back off,” she said.

Rabine said that she beat on the man’s hand with the butt of her gun and that he eventually handed her his handgun, which was empty of bullets. When she turned to call 9-1-1, he ran away, she said.

At the sixth residence he entered, Holcomb allegedly confronted a 72-year-old woman and scuffled with her before cutting her hand with a pocket knife, then drove away in her van, Burright said.

The stolen van was recovered Wednesday morning in Lebanon.

Burright said he believes Holcomb is still in the area.

“All indications are that he’s very seriously injured,” Burright said.

Holcomb was described by authorities as white, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 165 pounds, with light brown hair and hazel eyes.

Authorities also are looking for another man for questioning in connection with the shooting. Police said Corey A. Burdick, 23, accompanied Holcomb to the Pruitt residence. Burdick is white, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 168 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes.

Holcomb’s father, Marc M. Holcomb Sr., said his son has had a troubled life since he was a teen-ager.

“I’m not optimistic about (authorities) finding him alive because he’s the type of guy who will die or shoot himself before he turns himself in.”