Suspect in Murder of Grady Waxenfelter Convicted of Trying to Kill Police Officer in Los Angeles

Two years after police say Dirck White shot and killed assistant Clackamas County weigh master Grady Waxenfelter, he is one step closing to facing justice in Oregon.

White was convicted Wednesday in Los Angeles of attempted murder of a police officer as well as assault and other weapons charges.

Police say White murdered Waxenfelter during a February 2014 traffic stop.

He then fled and was finally arrested in November in Los Angeles when he was involved in a shootout with police officers responding to a report of a car break-in.

"The only way that he's going to get away from this" is to fire on one of the officers once they split up, Deputy District Attorney Robert Serna told the jurors. "You think there's any way in God's green Earth that he's going to surrender?"

When Officer Stuart Jaye fired twice and struck White in the arm, White slid around the front of a parked vehicle and fired back, the prosecutor said.

"His aim was a little bit low," and the bullet hit the roof of a car, according to Serna.

Jaye's partner ultimately shot White in the face, incapacitating him, Serna said.

Waxenfelter's brother, Royce, tells Patch that the family is relieved.

"We are glad to hear that he was convicted and are relieved to see progress happening," he said. "It will be hard to look at him but we are hopeful."

Clackamas County Chief Deputy District Attorney Greg Horner told Patch that his office has been monitoring the case in Los Angeles.

"There's no timetable for extradition," he said. "But we think we have a pretty good case that he should be moved up here at the appropriate time."

White will be sentenced in Los Angeles on May 26.