Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Mother calls 911 because of suicidal son

Hope Glenn was frustrated because she, her husband and her son's friends couldn't seem to calm her drunken, agitated 18-year-old son early Saturday. So she called 911 at 3:05 a.m. for help.

She told a dispatcher her teenage son, Lukus, was suicidal, standing outside their house in the Garden Home area of unincorporated Washington County with a knife to his throat.

"When I called 911, I called to save my son, to get some professional help," she said in an interview. "Maybe I'm naive."

Minutes after Washington County sheriff's deputies and a Tigard police officer arrived and Glenn's son, Lukus, refused to drop his knife, officers fired bean-bag rounds at him. When Glenn turned towards the house, two deputies fired several gunshots. Relatives said the teenager collapsed by a doorstep.

He died at the scene.

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