The Boxes' property
SALEM, Ore. (Legal Newsline) – A widow will get her chance to prove the Oregon State Police should not have employed a trooper with a history of “tunnel vision” and being on edge because it was foreseeable that he would kill someone someday.
In 2015, two troopers were called to the house of Robert Box by his wheelchair-bound daughter, who he had struck several times in the face during an argument while Robert’s wife Bernadette was out of town. After she left for the hospital, they tried to silently make their way toward Box’s property.
But dogs and an apparent call from someone tipped Box off to their presence. Troopers Gregor Smyth and Heather West testified he came out with a gun, and the situation only got messier from there.