08/20/2008

Associated Press

An Eagle Point man wounded by a sheriff's deputy during a February standoff has pleaded not guilty to attempted aggravated murder and five other charges.

Dan Waggoner appeared in a wheelchair at his arraignment Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Deputies responded to Waggoner's home after getting a 9-1-1 call from the mother of three of Waggoner's children. The woman said Waggoner had loaded firearms in the home, had fired a shot and was threatening suicide.

A sheriff's deputy shot Waggoner five times during the standoff, critically injuring him. In March, a grand jury deliberated for less than 15 minutes before deciding the deputy was justified.

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