WASHOUGAL, Wash. (KOIN) — The high-definition video from a motorcyclist’s GoPro shows a dramatic confrontation between the trespassing motorcyclist and a landowner now accused of second-degree assault.
On July 27, Jered Parker was riding his motorcycle near Washougal back to his parked truck when he saw a man in the distance walking toward him.
“I thought in my head, ‘Another guy who doesn’t want to hear dirt bikes,’ so I was going to have a friendly conversation with him,” Parker told KOIN 6 News.
But he said the man, later identified as Darrin Diegel, “fired 5 rounds directly at me. The first 2 rounds is when I grabbed my front brake and did a Pete Rose dive into the ground, scraping my body up.”
Diegel is heard on the video telling Parker to get “off my property now.” Parker said his truck is just ahead, and Diegel said he didn’t care.
Parker is heard saying he thought the dirt trail he was on — and riding with a friend and his 7-year-old daughter — was a public road.
“I don’t care,” Diegel is heard saying. “Where the No Trespassing signs are, the locked gates, the No Trespassing sign you just went past, b——- you didn’t know where you were at. Get off my property.”
Parker turned his bike around and asked Diegel if he was going to kill somebody over trespassing.
“Yes, I will,” Diegel is heard. “My wife has been attacked out here by people on motorcycles.”–> WARNING: Strong language in this GoPro video <–
Shortly after the incident, Parker talked with a Clark County deputy. Diegel, 47, was arrested for 2nd-degree assault.
He posted bail. KOIN 6 News has not been able to reach him for comment on this story.