MAN POINTS GUN AT SHERIFF’S DEPUTY

Lee Jayson Ellenburg is accused of pointing a gun at a Lincoln County Sheriff's deputy.

By Jon Mayhew

A Lincoln County man faces charges after he is accused of
pointing a rifle at a Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy while the
deputy was responding to a shots fire call last week.

Deputy R.C. Alger was dispatched to the call on Spring Creek
Drive around 10:55pm Wednesday, according to sheriff’s
department spokesman Larry Seagle.

“When Deputy Alger arrived on the scene, he saw the man
standing on the front porch with a rifle cradled in his arms,” said
Seagle, adding the man was identified as Lee Jayson Ellenburg.
“As the officer put his patrol car in park, he noticed the man
raise the rifle and point it at him.”

Seagle said Alger then started leaving the scene and while
doing so, heard a loud gunshot fired in an unknown direction.
The Communications Center was notified and more officers were
dispatched to the scene.

Deputy Alger took cover behind a nearby vehicle and ordered
the man to drop his weapon. The man continued walking up the
road as another patrol car arrived on the scene. The man did not
comply with the command to drop his weapon.

State trooper C. Casey arrived on the scene and also ordered
the suspect to drop his rifle.

He finally complied and officers placed the man is custody.

He told officers that he had been having trouble with dogs
attacking his cats on his property and that was why he was
shooting in his yard.

Officers charged Ellenburg of Iron Station with felony assault
with a firearm on a law enforcement officer and a misdemeanor
charge of going armed to the terror of the public.

He was placed in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under
a $30,000 secured bond.

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