MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
a division of the
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Troop B Headquarters - 308 Pine Crest Drive - Macon, Missouri 63552


NEWS RELEASE

For further information please contact: Sergeant Brent J. Bernhardt
(660) 385-2132
B14063
June 8, 2014

EMPHASIS: Officer Involved Shooting In Macon County


At approximately 8:02 p.m., on June 7, 2014, the Chillicothe Police Department advised Troop B Headquarters they had received information that Jeremy Lee Orona, 25, of Chula, Missouri, who was wanted on felony Livingston County and Probation and Parole warrants, was possibly driving a stolen 2001 Chevrolet Silverado pickup in the Bucklin, Missouri, area. A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper responded to the area and at approximately 9:30 p.m. located the pickup in Bucklin, Missouri. As the officer attempted to stop the pickup it fled and a pursuit ensued. The trooper pursued the pickup through Bucklin city streets and onto county roads in Macon County, where the suspect abandoned the truck in a bean field on Aqua Street, approximately two miles east of the Linn County line, and fled on foot. Members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Macon County Sheriff's Department, Linn County Sheriff's Department, and a Patrol aircraft and canine unit responded to the area and began searching for the fugitive.
At approximately 1:45 a.m., on June 8, 2014, officers were able to determine that Orona had been picked up in New Cambria, Missouri, by a female acquaintance. At approximately 2:10 a.m., members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Macon County Sheriff's Department stopped the vehicle driven by the female acquaintance on U.S. Highway 36, just west of New Cambria, Missouri. As officers attempted to approach the vehicle, a passenger later indentified to be Jeremy Lee Orona, pointed a handgun at officers and fired a shot from inside the vehicle. A trooper fired one shot from his duty weapon that struck Orona in the right leg. Orona was taken into custody and was transported by a Macon County Ambulance to the Macon Samaritan Hospital with a non-life threatening injury, and was later treated and released. Orona is currently incarcerated in the Macon County Jail. Orona was arrested on the following charges: felony Livingston County warrant for burglary, two felony probation and parole warrants, tampering with a motor vehicle, first degree assault on a law enforcement officer, felony resisting arrest, armed criminal action, felon in possession of a firearm, felony possession of stolen property, and other traffic charges. No one else involved in the incident was injured.
The officer-involved shooting is being investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control.
The charges for which Orona was arrested are mere accusations and are not evidence of guilt. Evidence in support of the charges must be presented before a court of competent jurisdiction whose duty is determine guilt or innocence.


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