Man gets 7 years for shooting man at yard sale

[Judi Lynn]

Man gets 7 years for shooting man at yard sale
| November 25, 2014 | Updated: November 25, 2014 10:03am

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who shot and wounded a customer who intervened in a fight at his yard sale has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Phillip Bregg pleaded guilty Monday to charges of attempted murder and assault, although he told the judge he didn't clearly recall the violent family fight last September that led to the shooting.

The Eugene Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/1zUMo9Q ) that the victim was at Bregg's Springfield home to browse a yard sale when he saw a woman with a bloody mouth and tried to intervene.

Prosecutors say Bregg had punched his wife and kicked her and two other women down some stairs. After the victim interfered, police say Bregg went back inside and opened fire from a window, wounding the man in the shoulder and leg.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Guilty-plea-in-Springfield-yard-sale-shooting-5916629.php

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Springfield man pleads guilty in attacks on four

Phillip Bregg says he does not remember his violent outburst

By Jack Moran
The Register-Guard
Nov. 25, 2014

A Springfield man admitted Monday that he attacked three female family members and shot and wounded a customer at his yard sale on the afternoon of Sept. 7.

But he told a judge that he doesn’t clearly recall the violent outburst.

“I don’t have a coherent memory of the incident,” Phillip Bregg told Lane County Circuit Judge Karsten Rasmussen moments before being sentenced to 7½ years in prison in the case.

Bregg, 34, agreed to the sentence in a deal with prosecutors that saw him plead guilty to a charge of attempted murder and three felony counts of fourth degree assault.

Springfield police arrested Bregg after being sent to his home in the 4000 block of A Street to investigate a shooting. Officers arrived to find the 29-year-old male victim lying on a sidewalk after having been shot three times, police said.

The victim told officers that he went to Bregg’s house to visit a yard sale there but got into an altercation with Bregg after seeing a woman with a bloody mouth crying outside the home, police said.

More:
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32467591-75/springfield-man-sentenced-in-yard-sale-shooting-case.html.csp

[otohara]

1. You Can't Even Be A Good Samaritan w/o

getting shot in America.

[Initech]

2. Just another day in gun country.

[Kalidurga]

3. He should have gotten a lot more than 7 1/2 years

but, assaults against family members even if an outsider gets hurt apparently aren't taken very seriously. He would probably have gotten more time if he stole money or possessed drugs.

[CBGLuthier]

4. Too bad he didn't have a nice shiny police badge. He could have gotten a paid vacation

and possibly a medal.