JUNCTION CITY, Ore. — Sheriff’s deputies say an explosion in Oregon rattled a police car, but the two officers inside escaped injury.
Capt. Spence Slater told The Register-Guard the Junction City officers felt the concussion of an explosion Sunday night and initially thought they had been shot at.
Slater said detectives think the explosion was a pipe bomb, and don’t know whether the officers were targeted or if the timing was a coincidence. It comes after a series of attacks on police nationwide.
At first, police thought the source of the explosion may have been from one of two nearby houses. A SWAT team and a military Humvee were among the officers and equipment dispatched, in case anyone responsible for the explosion was holed up.
Police concluded that no one in those houses was the culprit.