Shooting Roseburg, Aug. 3

ROSEBURG, Ore. – One man was shot and another arrested following a disturbance in the 4000-block of Grange Road Sunday morning, Aug. 1. Shortly before 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 1, 2021, 9-1-1 dispatchers received a report of a disturbance where someone had been shot. As deputies responded a citizen called 9-1-1 to report a male burying items in the ground near where the shooting took place. The victim, 43 year-old James Edward Strayer of Roseburg, was transported to Mercy Medical Center by ambulance for a gunshot wound to the side. Detectives later learned Strayer was in stable condition. Deputies located the suspect, 63 year-old Roseburg man John Dewayne Armstrong, shortly after the shooting and took him into custody. Armstrong was interviewed by Detectives and later lodged at the Douglas County Jail for Attempted Murder in the Second Degree and Assault in the First Degree. Anyone with information which may help investigators, is asked to contact the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Detective’s Division at 541-440-4458 or email dcso.pio@co.douglas.or.us