Murder suicide fail: NINE nails in the head not enough

An unidentified woman allegedly approached Thompson with a request for death

An Oregon man claims a mysterious woman approached him and asked him to kill her.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to The Register Guard, 46-year-old Troy Vance Thompson told authorities he first met the 31-year-old unidentified woman the day before he shot her with a nail gun.

He claimed she stopped her car on Highway 99 in Eugene then approached him as he was walking along the side of the road.

Thompson said the woman was afraid of being sent to a mental hospital. Rather than allowing herself to be committed, she "needed someone to kill her."

Oregon State Police trooper Cale Day, one of two who spoke to Thompson at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, explained Thompson's initial conversation with the woman.

She wanted to be stabbed in the chest then the two spoke of obtaining a gun before she attempted to convince him to beat her with a hammer or baseball bat.

The conversation led to the idea of a murder-suicide and she claimed a nail fun would be as good as anything else. With the gun, they could enter a wood where he could shoot and kill her before turning the nail gun on himself.

On June 1, the woman rented  a nail gun and air compressor and the store manager said she "requested the nail gun with the largest nails" then left after purchasing 3-inch nails.

Thompson described the duo's trip to Goodman Creek Road, where he shot her three times but discovered she "was still alive and told him to keep going [and] reminded Troy he had promised her he would help her."

After shooting a total of nine nails into her head, he shot himself and passed out. When he woke later, he discovered her walking beside him.

Thompson reported the unidentified woman get into her car, turned on the hazard lights and allowed the car to roll backward unto a ditch.

Three people saw the lights and came to investigate then drove the couple to the highway where they called 911.

Both were hospitalized and when he was recovered, Thompson was moved to the Lane County Jail where prosecutors charged him with first-degree assault.

The woman's current condition remains unknown but authorities stated she was previously critical.

Her mother told one detective her daughter suffered delusions, was bipolar and was hospitalized several times in the last year for mental illness. She had a history of asking friends and family to help her die and even approached strangers at parks.

Her daughter went as far as posting requests online and in classified ad services.

She refused to take her prescribed medications three weeks before she was shot with the nail gun.

Thompson is expected in court July 13 for a pretrial conference and has no felony convictions in the state of Oregon, though he admitted he has "brain injuries from the past" and suffers a history of substance abuse and suicidal thoughts.

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