Deputy shooting

An Oroville man was shot and killed May 18 by a Butte County sheriff’s deputy responding to a call of a family disturbance on Refuge Avenue. According to a press release, Cory Lee Bush, 24, was reportedly “having a nervous breakdown” and “was out of control and tearing up the house.” Four deputies responded and an “armed confrontation occurred.”

Deputy Ben Cornelius shot Bush, who was declared dead at the scene. Court records show that Bush was named in a domestic violence suit last September and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in 2010. Cornelius was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the District Attorney’s Office.