A father driving his family home and a pedestrian were shot Monday night at Keizer Station. A separate shooting in the same area hours later sent a delivery driver fleeing into a business to escape a barrage of gunfire, according to Keizer police.
No arrests have been made in the first incident, which occurred about 10 p.m. at the intersection of Northeast Ulali Drive and Keizer Station Boulevard.
Police on Tuesday, Feb. 10, arrested a transient, accusing him in the shooting involving the delivery driver.
The shootings were unrelated, according to Lt. Trevor Wenning of the Keizer Police Department.
In the first incident, Wenning said shots were fired at a vehicle at the intersection, injuring the father. His wife was in the front seat and children age 2 and 7 were in the back seat. The Salem family was leaving In-N-Out Burger at Keizer Station at the time of the shooting.
Wenning said police later recovered bullet casings at the intersection, which indicates the shots were fired by someone on foot.
Suffering a head injury, the father drove two miles to the Keizer Fire District station on Northeast Chemawa Road. There, medics took him to Salem Hospital for treatment of an injury that Wenning said was “non-life threatening.”
While at the hospital, detectives learned of a second shooting victim who had a serious leg injury. He was taken to the hospital by private vehicle. He had been walking in the area of the intersection when he was shot.
The conditions of the two victims couldn’t immediately be determined.
While police investigated those shootings, officers responded at 3 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, to a report of a man menacing a Sysco delivery driver.
Wenning said a gunman confronted the driver, who managed to lock himself inside the HopsnDrops restaurant at the intersection where the earlier shooting occurred.
The gunman shot the delivery truck’s tires, windows and cargo space and the business itself.
Subsequently, a man called 911 to report that his car with a handgun in it had been stolen from Keizer Station.
Wenning said police established that the caller was in fact the shooter.
Keith A. Winans, 42, listed by police as a transient, was arrested Tuesday afternoon for menacing, unlawful use of a weapon, attempted burglary and criminal mischief. He was also accused of initiating a false police report.
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