A rural Benton County woman filed a $2.5 million lawsuit on Thursday against her neighbor for taking target practice near a road and striking her in the buttocks and back with two stray bullets.

Gale Fogelstrom's lawsuit claims that Jeffrey Jay Fields realized he shot her but didn't rush to help her. The suit states the 60-year-old was walking to her mailbox along Reese Creek Road to retrieve a newspaper when she was shot at about 3:30 p.m. on April 6, 2014.

"She fell to the ground, screaming for help," Fogelstrom's lawsuit states. "After Gale screamed, Jeffrey Fields immediately stopped shooting, but he chose to not come to her aid and left her laying in the street."

At the time, Fields, 47, told sheriff's investigators that he hadn't realized he had struck anyone. Fields didn't return a call seeking comment Friday.

As part of a plea deal, a felony charge of third-degree assault was dismissed, and Fields pleaded guilty to the misdemeanors of fourth-degree assault and recklessly endangering another person.

A Benton County Circuit judge sentenced Fields to three years of probation, and barred him from firing a gun anywhere in the county until May 2018. The judge also sentenced Fields to 80 hours of community service.

According to the sheriff's office, Fields was shooting with Lena Potter, 37, downhill toward Reese Road, about 100 yards away. Fields lived on the property, which is about 5 miles northwest of Monroe.

The lawsuit faults Fields for failing to use an "adequate backstop" to stop stray bullets, for shooting in the direction of a public road, for "choosing to not use ordinary care when shooting guns" and for failing to help Fogelstrom.

Fogelstrom managed to hobble toward home before a driver spotted her and got her medical help, according to the sheriff's office.

Sheriff's investigators say the bullets entered Fogelstrom's lower left back and left buttocks. As a result, the suit states, Fogelstrom had a collapsed lung, a bullet hole in her stomach, a lacerated spleen and lesions to her liver, among other injuries. One of the bullets is permanently lodged in her perineum, and she's at future risk of lead poisoning, deadly infection and organ complications, the suit states.

Fogelstrom seeks about $2.3 million for pain and suffering and as much as $250,000 for future medical care that she has been told will be necessary.

In addition to Fields, the lawsuit also lists his businesses Dawson Timber Services, LLC, and Fields Enterprises, LLC, as defendants.

Eugene attorneys Travis Eiva and Erin Zemper are representing Fogelstrom.

Read the lawsuit here. It was filed in Lane County Circuit Court.

-- Aimee Green

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