Justice will not be served until those who are
unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
—Benjamin Franklin
The Siege on Summer Street
(Salem, Oregon 22 January 2019)
2. Battleground Geography
This is the second of a seven-part story.
To help us understand the unfolding of events around the home, a report by Salem police officer
Cpl. Adam Waite explained the SWAT method of identifying the sides and levels of a structure.
"In this incident, the basement was labeled ‘basement,’ the first floor was labeled, ‘level one’
and the second floor was labeled ‘level two.’
"The sides of a structure are numbered in a clockwise fashion. In this incident, the
front of the residence faced west and was labeled ‘one side.’ The north side of the
residence was labeled, ‘two side’. The back of the residence faced east
…"
Source: Incident Supplement, Cpl. Adam Waite, Pg. 3 of 8, Bates 00142.
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This is a satellite view of the neighborhood in Salem Oregon. The
red carrot stake shows the location of 1050 summer St. NE.
Image:
Google Maps
(cached). Click
to enlarge.
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"The sides of a structure are numbered in a clockwise
fashion. In this incident, the front of the residence faced west and was labeled
‘one side.’ The north side of the residence was labeled, ‘two side’. The back
of the residence faced east …" This view of 1050 Summer St. shows the sides of
the house, the alley door, front door, the rear deck. and the numbers used to identify the
sides in the police reports. Ketchem was chased by the Lone Ranger from a property
somewhere past the lower right of the image on Capital Street, a block over.
Incident Supplement, Cpl. Adam Waite, Pg. 3 of 8, Bates 00142.)
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This is the house at 1050 Summer St. as it was in 2018
before the Graves bought it. Shown here are the front ("west" or "side 1") and the
south side ("side 4") as it was in 2019 during the incident. This is the area of
the house with the living room where the worst fire damage occurred. "In this
incident, the basement was labeled ‘basement,’ the first floor was labeled, ‘level one’
and the second floor was labeled ‘level two.’" (Incident Supplement,
Cpl. Adam Waite, Pg. 3 of 8, 00142.)
Image: HD Open House
(cached).
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The alley entrance of the house ("north" or "side 2") as it
was in 2019 during the incident. Mrs. Graves admitted Ketchem through this door as he
fled from his armed pursuer.
Image: HD Open House
(cached).
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This is the rear of the house ("east" or "side 3")
showing the deck as it was in 2019 during the incident. Ketchem fled the tear gas,
smoke, and flash-bang grenades, and the fire inside the house by crawling out a basement
window under the deck. Knowing he was there, police fired three grenades at him
through the latticework, wounding him in the abdomen.
Image: HD Open House
(cached).
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