Police identify two men shot, killed at NE Bend home

(Update: Names released; no arrests; resident who called police cooperating)

Bend police on Sunday night identified two Bend men shot and fatally wounded at a home in northeast Bend early Saturday, as well as the man who had called 911 to report shooting someone in his house. But they also said he is continuing to cooperate in the case and no arrests have been made.

Police received calls around 1:23 a.m. Saturday from neighbors in the 20000 block of Northeast Sierra Drive who reported hearing gunshots, Lt. Clint Burleigh said Saturday. Information from neighbors helped officers triangulate where the shots likely came from.

Around the same time, a resident who police late Sunday identified as Brennan Willey Pebbles, 31, called Deschutes County 911 dispatchers to say he’d shot a man inside of his home, Burleigh said.

Based on the phone calls, officers went to the home and contacted Pebbles. They found two other Bend men, who were identified Sunday as Tyler William Herrick, 31, and Kyle Scott Adams, 33, with gunshot wounds in the home, Burleigh said.

Herrick died at the scene, while Adams was found with life-threatening injuries and was taken by Bend Fire ambulance to St. Charles Bend, where he later died.

Burleigh said Sunday night that Pebbles is still cooperating with police investigators and that no arrests have been made in the case. He also said Adams’ age was misstated in the initial news release as 27, but he was 33.

However, no other details of what transpired were released Sunday, due to the continuing investigation.

The lieutenant had said Saturday that po lice detectives, the Oregon State Police Crime Lab and the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office were called to the scene and are involved in the investigation..

Investigators and the OSP Crime Lab executed a search warrant Saturday morning at two neighboring homes on Sierra Drive, Burleigh said.

“Due to the complexity of this incident, Sierra Drive will be closed in front of these two residences for the duration of the on-scene investigation,” he said in the initial news release. Burleigh said the road was reopened on Sunday.

Because Pebbles is cooperating in the investigation, Burleigh had assured on Saturday, “There is no risk to the community at this time.”

Police also asked anyone with information that could help in the shooting investigation to call the county’s 911 non-emergency dispatch line at 541-693-6911.

“Any information, no matter how insignificant it might seem, can be vital to this investigation,” Burleigh told NewsChannel 21 at the scene.

Crime scene tape blocked off the street and two adjacent houses where the investigation was underway on an otherwise quiet and blue-sky sunny Saturday morning.

One resident on Sierra Drive told NewsChannel 21 he thought the sounds were fireworks, as he wouldn’t expect to hear gunshots in his usually quiet neighborhood.

“This is a great, safe neighborhood,” Michael Davis said. “Bend overall is a safe place to live. I had no idea, or even a thought in my mind. … I didn’t realize until later, when I saw the police. The whole neighborhood was pretty much swarmed by Bend police at that point.”