A Salem woman is charged with running over her ex-husband with her car and killing him Saturday at Woodmansee Park.
Visitors to the park called police around 9:15 a.m. Saturday to report a woman driving a car had hit a man in the parking lot area, according to a Salem Police Department press release.
Witnesses pointed officers to the location of the man, 38-year-old Vince Edward Fouts, who was deceased.
Salem detectives arrested 29-year-old Branda Myshelle Myers of Salem on charges of first-degree murder and second-degree murder.
Police learned Meyers and Fouts were former spouses in a custody dispute and were “attempting to resolve matters that morning at the park,” the press release said. “The argument between the two escalated, and Myers used her vehicle to run over (Fouts) several times.”
Myers was lodged at the Marion County Jail late Saturday night and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday at 2:30 p.m. at the Marion County Criminal Court Annex.
Salem police said shortly afternoon Saturday that the park had been closed. The agency wrote in a tweet Saturday afternoon that they had reopened the park, located in the 4600 block of Southeast Sunnyside Road.
Contact reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian: [email protected] or 503-929-3053.
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Ardeshir Tabrizian has covered criminal justice and housing for Salem Reporter since September 2021. As an Oregon native, his award-winning watchdog journalism has traversed the state. He has done reporting for The Oregonian, Eugene Weekly and Malheur Enterprise.
