Troutdale police Monday released 31 pages of documents, some heavily redacted, from police interviews with the father and brother of Reynolds High School shooter Jared Padgett.

Padgett, 15, opened fire in the boys locker room at Reynolds High School on June 10. He fatally shot freshman Emilio Hoffman before shooting and killing himself.

Padgett used his brother's AR-15 rifle to kill Hoffman and himself, and wound teacher Todd Rispler. A .25-caliber handgun that belonged to Padgett's father was recovered from the school gym.

Troutdale police redacted large sections of interviews conducted with Padgett relatives, even removing every reference to Jared Padgett.

Michael Padgett, Jared's father, told detectives within hours of the shooting that he had caught his son in the past playing around with his knives more than anything else. He said his son liked guns and knives, and he had taken Jared target shooting in Estacada about once every three years -- the most recent trip about a couple of weeks before the high school shooting.

Michael Padgett told police that he kept his guns and knives in the closet of his bedroom, and he usually locks the door from the inside and closes it. Anyone seeking access would need a key to open the bedroom door, and he said his son Jared did not have the key.

"I don't consider it any, umm, anything irresponsible on where they're at, how we store 'em, what the training has been, so on and so forth,'' Michael Padgett told detectives. "He's not a kid that gets into that stuff.''

The AR-15 rifle that Padgett used in the school shooting, police determined, had been locked in a Pelican-brand gun case in the bedroom that Jared Padgett shared with his older brother, Lucas Padgett.

Michael Padgett told investigators that Lucas Padgett had put a key on his father's key ring that was for one of two locks on the Pelican rifle case.

Lucas Padgett, a U.S. army reservist interviewed by an FBI agent, a state police detective and a Portland detective, said his brother Jared gave him a hug and said, "I love you. See you later today.'' The exchange occurred before Jared left for school June 10.

After the shooting, Lucas Padgett said his sister was text messaging him that the Reynolds High shooter had used an AR-15 rifle.

"I put two and two together,'' Lucas Padgett told police. He said he went to his bedroom to check if his rifle was still locked away in his closet. He pulled out his Pelican rifle case. He told investigators that he saw the case was locked. But when he opened it, he saw his rifle and two loaded magazines that contained a total of 60 rounds were gone. The magazines held Federal 5.56-caliber rounds.

Lucas Padgett said he kept two locks on the Pelican case that held his Daniel Defense M4 rifle, the AR-15 that Jared Padgett used in the school shooting.

Padgett told investigators that the last time he'd seen his rifle was a month or two earlier when he had cleaned it after firing it.

Lucas Padgett told investigators he kept a Master lock on the Pelican case, and kept the case in his closet. He said he kept the key to the Master lock on his house and car key ring, which he sometimes leaves on his desk or hangs in the kitchen, the records show. He said he kept the key to a second lock on the case on his dad's key ring, the records show.

When detectives asked him how he stored other ammunition in his closet, Lucas Padgett at one point said, "It's irrelevant."

"It's irrelevant?'' state police detective Patti Rhodes asked in response.

"Yeah, it's uh ... irrelevant,'' Lucas Padgett replied.

"It might not be irrelevant,'' Portland police Det. Brett Hawkinson told Lucas Padgett.

Lucas Padgett told police that he had 24 magazines of ammunition in total, including the two that were missing.

Asked if his younger brother knew he had the rifle with loaded magazines inside the Pelican case, Lucas Padgett said yes.

"Has he opened it before?'' the state police detective asked.

"Yes,'' Lucas Padgett said.

Lucas Padgett told authorities that he'd gone target shooting with Jared within the prior year. He said they didn't go that often. "It was just kind of one of those ... you gotta be in the mood for it,'' Lucas Padgett told police.

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In a follow-up interview on Sept. 11, Michael Padgett said the .25-caliber Colt semiautomatic handgun and loaded magazine that police located in the northeast restroom of the Reynolds High gym after the June 10 shooting was the gun that Michael Padgett had inherited from his own father.

Nineteen days later, in another interview with the detective, Michael Padgett said he had no idea how Jared Padgett entered his bedroom. On Sept. 30, the detective asked for the father's consent to enter his home to examine the bedroom lock and take additional photos of it. Michael Padgett declined to allow a police visit.

On Oct. 1, investigator Steve Ober from the Multnomah County District Attorney's office asked the father again if police could enter his home to examine the bedroom locks, and the father again declined to allow such a visit.

It wasn't until Nov. 3 -- five months after the Reynolds School shooting -- that Michael Padgett, accompanied by his lawyer, allowed the investigator into his home. Ober found the bedroom door did have a basic lock on it "that could be unlocked from the outside with the use of a rudimentary key.'' The lock was functioning, Ober found.

The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office decided not to bring criminal charges against Jared Padgett's brother or father, though Jared had armed himself with firearms that belonged to both relatives.

Investigators found that although Lucas Padgett failed to prevent his younger brother from gaining access to his rifle, the evidence showed that Lucas Padgett kept his rifle in a "locked container.''

Lucas Padgett could not be found to have violated Multnomah County code for endangering a child by preventing access to a loaded or unloaded firearm, because the firearm had been kept in a locked container, the district attorney's office found.

For similar reasons, prosecutors said they would not bring charges against Jared's father, since they believe the father had his handgun locked in his bedroom.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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