Mother of Five Rivers Victim Files $12.5M Wrongful-Death Suit Against OSP

Rhonda Proctor filed a $12.5 million wrongful-death lawsuit in Lane County Circuit Court on Feb. 27, 2026, naming the Oregon State Police, OSP SWAT team leader Jamin VanMeter, three OSP SWAT members and the Lane County Sheriff’s Office over the Dec. 26-27, 2024 shootings at Prindel Creek Farm in the Five Rivers area, a 120-acre property about 25 miles east of Yachats.

The complaint traces the night’s violence to about 10:45 p.m. Dec. 26, 2024, when Everett Fuller burst into the farm shop and shot a person identified only as Clark in the head, killing him, then fired an additional 4-5 shots around the room without striking anyone else. According to the lawsuit and reporting from the scene, Christine Fuller and Tyler Holloway tackled Everett Fuller during the scuffle, and Everett Fuller struck Holloway in the head with the gun before fleeing. Dannie Jones, a resident who lived in a trailer on the property, placed the first call to dispatchers and told them a shooting had occurred, named the shooter and the victim and reported the location of Clark’s body, while noting cell phones did not work at the shop.

The suit alleges law enforcement then delayed, saying Holloway “waited almost seven hours for police to come to his rescue in the early morning of Dec. 27, 2024.” In the early morning hours law enforcement identified as OSP SWAT opened fire, the filings and reports say, with a barrage of 29 shots. One bullet “pierced his heart and killed the 26-year-old Army veteran as he stepped outside a shop on a remote Five Rivers farm,” the complaint states. The suit accuses OSP and VanMeter of an “excessive delay” and a “reckless, secretive” approach, and quotes the complaint: “What should have been a routine response to a call for help became a firing squad.”

Proctor’s attorney on the filing is Eugene lawyer Kevin Yolken; a photograph accompanying initial coverage showed Yolken standing outside the Prindel Creek Farm shop. The complaint notes Proctor filed a tort-claim notice “last March” indicating her intent to sue before bringing the Feb. 27, 2026 civil action.

Oregon State Police provided the brief response that the agency “does not comment on litigation.” The Lane County Sheriff’s Office did not offer a statement in the materials reviewed, and the county district attorney had described the death in 2025 as “a tragedy for all involved.” The suit names three OSP SWAT members without identifying them by name in the complaint excerpts made public so far.

Key records remain to be obtained to track the case: the full Lane County Circuit Court complaint and docket entry, the tort-claim notice filed last March, OSP and Lane County incident and use-of-force reports, 911 and dispatch logs including Dannie Jones’s call, coroner/autopsy and ballistic reports, and any body-worn or dash camera footage. For inquiries or to request copies of republished coverage, the public radio station that carried the reporting can be reached at 136 W 8th Ave, Eugene; phone 541-463-6000; email klcc@klcc.org.

The civil lawsuit sets a formal timetable for discovery and potential hearings in Lane County Circuit Court; Proctor seeks $12.5 million in damages and is pursuing accountability through the courts for the death of her son, Tyler Holloway.