*UPDATE* Sweet Home Police Department Investigate Homicide

On 05/24/19 at approximately 2:32 a.m., the Sweet Home Police Department received a report that two subjects had been shot on the 500 block of Surrey Lane, Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon.

Sweet Home Police Officers and Linn County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the scene and located two male victims on the property. One male subject was pronounced dead at the scene and the other male was transported to the hospital.

The Linn County Major Crimes team which consists of members of the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, the Sweet Home Police Department, the Oregon State Police, the Lebanon Police Department and the Albany Police Department, responded to assist with the investigation.

The male pronounced dead at the scene was identified as Corey A. Burdick, 43 YOA, from Sweet Home.

Ervin Larry Smith, 65 YOA, from Sweet Home, was also the victim of a gunshot wound and was transported to the hospital.

Based upon the investigation there is no information indicating an ongoing threat to the public.

The incident occurred in and around a travel trailer occupied by Ervin Smith on the property of 541 Surrey Lane in Sweet Home, Oregon.

The investigation is on-going and anyone with information is asked to call the Sweet Home Police Department at 541-367-5181.

JWL

05/26/19

2019-03085