Widow seeks justice after husband killed over dog at Oregon coast

The widow of a man fatally beaten on a one-night getaway to Lincoln City last year filed


a lawsuit Wednesday against her husband’s accused attacker and the Oregon coast hotel where the suspect was staying at the time.

The lawsuit contends the suspect, Roland Evans-Freke, now 31, had a history of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations and had been bouncing from hotels financed by his father. The lawsuit also names Evans-Freke’s father,

a retired Wall Street investment banker

, as a defendant.

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