A 69-year-old man shot and killed by Hillsboro police earlier this year experienced hallucinations in the days leading up to the fatal encounter and was under the influence of methamphetamine and ketamine at the time he was shot, according to newly released police reports.
Stanley Hayes fired nine rounds from a rifle and two from a handgun out of in his condo in the 300 block of Northeast Edgeway Drive in the early hours of Jan. 2.
The episode terrified neighbors who called 911 as they hid in their homes. Hayes, who had moved in only days earlier, shouted at imaginary threats and fired into cars and other homes.
Hayes shot up his Hillsboro neighborhood and was fatally shot by police when he emerged from his condo holding a rifle. An autopsy found methamphetamine and ketamine in Hayes' system.
When Hayes eventually walked out of his home holding a rifle, police ordered him to drop it. Police said he did not, prompting Washington County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jim Haxton to fire on Hayes, killing him. Hillsboro Officer Chris Taaca also shot at Hayes but missed.
Police reports say Haxton fired a rifle five times; Taaca fired a single shot from his rifle.
An autopsy found Hayes was hit four times -- in his back, buttocks and thigh.
The Washington County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the shooting and in a letter issued July 30 concluded that the officers’ use of force was justified.
In addition to meth and ketamine, a toxicology analysis found amphetamine in Hayes’ system when he he died.
Ketamine is a general anesthetic for humans and animals. The level found in Hayes is associated with an altered mental status, erratic behavior and hallucinations, a toxicologist said.
Washington County police reports reviewed this week by The Oregonian/OregonLive underscore the rising alarm among residents as Hayes menaced the otherwise quiet development of townhomes. One woman identified in police reports as Norma Green told the 911 dispatcher that an armed Hayes had pushed a screen out of a window in his condo and fired his rifle twice.
Other panicked neighbors reported similar observations to emergency dispatchers.
The scene was captured on surveillance footage from neighbors’ security cameras, which show Hayes in the third-floor bedroom window facing Edgewood Drive as he ranted about armed people, kidnappings and hostages.
At one point, the reports say, Hayes was heard shouting “I have a hard shot right now” before firing.
Between 1:48 a.m. and 2:10 a.m., Hayes fired a total of 11 shots into two cars and three homes from his house, according to police reports.
Hayes told officers at the scene that “news reporters were breaking into his house,” according to a report written by Hillsboro Officer Patrick Durham. Durham met with Hayes at the condo after Hayes called 911 after midnight.
He told police that “Kung Fu guys” were in his house “along with several drones,” the officer wrote, noting that Hayes was obviously experiencing hallucinations.
Durham said he told Hayes to get some sleep and it seemed Hayes would follow that advice.
But a half-hour later, Hayes was back on the phone with 911.
This time, he complained that women were “leaving babies in his garage,” the reports say. He also told authorities he had a loaded gun.
Durham returned and saw Hayes standing in the third-story of the condo “with a scoped rifle.” The officer saw Hayes peeking out of the window “positioning himself to deploy his rifle.”
Hayes did not appear to be firing at anything in particular and was yelling “as if he was having an argument with someone he saw outside,” Durham noted.
One of Hayes’ sons told police his father never showed signs of mental illness and had not been diagnosed with any mental health conditions, though he had been forgetful in recent months, believed he had been exposed to chemicals and was hallucinating.
In a voicemail message Hayes left for a relative on Dec. 18, he sounded elated to be moving into his condo. He gushed about the property on the voicemail, which was included with police reports.
“I am kind of like floating in the clouds right now,” he said.
His former girlfriend, Bernadette Snow, told police Stanley had experienced hallucinations in the days before he was shot. At one point, he told her he had seen ninjas in his house.
She said he been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2019 for abuse he said he experienced as a child and had stopped taking medication. She told police she learned Hayes had HIV five years earlier and that he had not informed her even though they had been intimate; that discovery ultimately ended their relationship and prompted him to move out, she said.
Hayes’ sister told police her brother experienced depression after the diagnosis; she said he had been diagnosed about 30 years ago.
He finally moved out of Snow’s house around Christmas but they remained friends, she said.
According to police reports, she said she was so concerned about his erratic behavior that she had his blood and urine tested on Dec. 31 – the results showed what she told police was a “very high level” of methamphetamine in his system.
-- Noelle Crombie; ncrombie@oregonian.com; 503-276-7184; @noellecrombie
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