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UPDATE: Bend Police have identified the homicide victim as Robert Glenn Haston, a 54-year-old Bend resident. 
 

Date: May 8, 2025  

Case #: 2025-00026090 

Incident: Bend Police investigating homicide in NE Bend 

Date / Time of Incident: May 7, 2025 / 7:16 p.m.  

Location: 100 block of NE Emerson Avenue, Bend  

Arrested: Phillip Matthew Howard Evans, 27-year-old Bend resident 
Offenses: Murder II, Assault I – Aggravated, Unlawful Use of a Weapon 

At approximately 7:16 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, Bend Police responded to the area of the 100 block of NE Emerson Avenue after dispatch received a report of a deceased person in the area.  

Upon arrival, officers located the victim, an unidentified middle-aged white man, who had suffered a fatal injury.  

While detectives were investigating the man’s death, officers responded to a trespassing call in the 600 block of NE Irving Avenue. The caller reported a man wearing a backpack running through his yard and behaving strangely. Officers contacted the man, identified as 27-year-old Phillip Matthew Howard Evans, and took him into custody on suspicion of second-degree trespassing. Additional investigation revealed Evans as the suspect in the man’s death.  

He was arrested and taken to the Bend Police Department before being transported to the Deschutes County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. Detectives are in the process of serving search warrants. 

Attempts to identify the victim are ongoing, and an autopsy will take place today.  

Date: May 7, 2025  

Case #: 2025-00025926 

Incident: Serious injury crash closes Bend Parkway for several hours

Date / Time of Incident: May 7, 2025 / 8:11 a.m.  

Location: Bend Parkway near Reed Market Road overpass, Bend  

At approximately 8:11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 7, Bend Police responded to a report of a head-on crash on the Bend Parkway near the Reed Market Road overpass.  

When officers arrived, they found that a black Chevrolet Silverado was traveling southbound on the Parkway when the driver, a 61-year-old Bend man, suffered a medical event and veered into the northbound lanes, striking a Toyota Sienna head-on.  

The driver of the Toyota Sienna, a 21-year-old Bend woman, was partially ejected from the vehicle and sustained life-threatening injuries.  

Both drivers were transported by Bend Fire & Rescue to St. Charles Bend.   

The driver of the Silverado, Bryan Patrick McMahon, was cited for careless driving - causing an accident. 

All northbound lanes and one southbound lane were closed for approximately three hours as the Crash Reconstruction Team completed an investigation.  

Date: May 7, 2025  

Case #: 2025-00025899 

Incident: Bend man shot at SW Bend apartment complex 

Date / Time of Incident: May 6, 2025 / 9:12 p.m.  

Location: Stillwater Crossing Apartments, 60000 block of SW Atwood Drive, Bend  

Arrested: Iziah Nicholas Coleman, 21-year-old Bend resident  
Offenses: Assault I, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Reckless Endangering, Felon in Possession of a Firearm 

Victim: 20-year-old Bend resident 

At approximately 9:12 p.m., Bend Police responded to a report of a shooting at Stillwater Crossing Apartments on SW Atwood Drive. Multiple callers reported people running through the parking lot of the apartment complex and vehicles speeding away from the scene.  

Officers learned the victim was driven from the area after the shooting. They located the victim in a car at Powers Road and the Bend Parkway, where they rendered aid before medics transported the victim to St. Charles Bend with serious injuries.  

Patrol officers, detectives and members of the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team responded to the apartment complex to investigate the incident.

Officers learned that the suspected shooter, 21-year-old Iziah Nicholas Coleman, checked into Motel 6 in the 200 block of NE Third Street shortly after the shooting. CERT operators responded to the motel and at approximately 12:43 a.m., took Coleman into custody without incident or injury.  

Coleman was transported to the Bend Police Department. He will be transported to the Deschutes County Jail on suspicion of first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, reckless endangering and felon in possession of a firearm.  

A police presence remains at the apartment complex as the investigation continues.   

Date: April 30, 2025  

Case #: 2025-00024564 

Incident: Barricaded subject arrested in SE Bend

Date / Time of Incident: April 30, 2025 / 2:44 p.m.  

Location: 900 block of SE Third Street, Bend  

Arrested: Brach Addison Roberts, 32-year-old Bend resident 

Offenses: Statewide felony warrant 

At approximately 2:44 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, Bend Police learned that Brach Addison Roberts, a 32-year-old Bend resident, had an active statewide felony warrant and was reportedly in possession of an illegal firearm.  

Officers determined that Roberts was in an apartment at the Old Mill Apartments on SE Third Street and SE McKinley Avenue. The Central Oregon Emergency Response Team was activated, and McKinley Avenue was blocked off between Third and Fourth streets as officers attempted to contact Roberts. Officers loud-hailed Roberts in an effort to get him out of the apartment. Ultimately, officers negotiated him out of the apartment, and Roberts was taken into custody without injury or incident at approximately 5:34 p.m.  

Roberts was transported to the Deschutes County Jail on his felony warrant.