3 Men Arrested in Shooting Rampage
Three men have been arrested after a shooting rampage with racist overtones stemming from the summer conflict over sharing water between fish and farmers, police said.
Witnesses said the men yelled “sucker lovers” at Indians while driving through Chiloquin, Ore., firing shotguns at street signs and buildings for about an hour Dec. 1. Key elements in the environmental dispute are two threatened species of sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake and salmon in the Klamath River downstream.
“To be doing this, to me, is really an act of terrorism,” Sheriff Tim Evinger of Klamath County, Ore., said of the shooting incident. “I consider it to be terrorizing an entire community.”
The Klamath Basin straddles the California-Oregon border.
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