TUALATIN, OR (KPTV) -
Oregon State Police are investigating a shooting during the evening rush hour on I-5 near Tualatin.
The shooting happened around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the southbound lanes near Nyberg Road. A trooper stopped 59-year-old James Beaver in a blue GMC van for a vehicle license violation. The trooper determined the driver had a suspended license, so he ordered a tow truck to impound the van.
When the tow truck arrived just before 6 p.m., the trooper returned to the van to find the driver with a gunshot wound to his neck and a handgun lying on the front seat.
Beaver, whose last known address is listed as Roseburg, was able to get out of the van on his own while officers detained him. He was treated at the scene before an ambulance transported him to the hospital.
On Wednesday morning, Beaver's condition was upgraded to fair at Oregon Health & Science University.
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