TD man arrested after allegedly firing multiple shots

Two children, ages 7 and 3, were in the house at the time of the incident, according to a Wasco County Sheriff’s Office report.

Temby’s wife called dispatchers just before 10 p.m. Friday, reporting her husband had a gun and was “out of his mind,” according to sheriff’s log.

She said they got in a fight that started because he was drunk and “not getting his way,” according to the sheriff’s log.

The woman reported she was also armed and was standing next to her husband as she was on the phone to the emergency dispatch center.

Dispatchers advised her to move away from her husband if she could do so safely. The dispatch log reported 14 shots were fired during the course of the incident.

The woman reported her husband had a rifle, with one magazine and a laser sight and he had military training. At one point she reported him saying he was “not going to go down without a fight,” according to the sheriff’s log.

The man left the house, but then came back in, and the woman reported there was more ammo in the back bedroom and she felt he might be headed for that. She had barricaded herself in her bedroom with her children, pushing a bed in front of the door to block the door.

The Dalles Police Department’s Special Emergency Response Team was called out to the incident. They established a perimeter and Temby drove from the home shortly afterward, said Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Scott Williams.

A spike strip was laid at the entrance to Mill Creek Road, and Temby drove over it, puncturing both passenger side tires, Williams said. He drove by six patrol cars that were parked in the lane of travel facing south, about a quarter mile north of his driveway.

“He drove right through all the police cars, he drove right by all of us, and accelerated,” Williams said.

At the time, “we were formulating a plan. Things change rapidly,” he said.

The northbound lane Temby was in was not blocked by vehicles, Williams said.

“That’s why we use spike strips, we don’t like to block the road: Cars and people get injured and damaged. And if he has a firearm, it’s not a good idea.”

Oregon State Police Lt. Pat Shortt pulled Temby over and he resisted arrest as police attempted to handcuff him. “He resisted until he thought he was going to get tazed,” Williams said.

“That’s how we do high risk traffic stops, we prone them out, and then we handcuff them,” Williams said.

Law officers recovered an AR-15 from the vehicle, he said.

Before he was lodged at the regional jail, Temby was taken to the hospital for a blood draw to test for alcohol and a search warrant was needed, Williams said.

Search warrants are required when a person does not consent to a blood draw, he said.