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A Scientology center's guard kills an Oregon man
The ex-Florence resident's record includes probation, jail time
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
LORI TOBIAS
The Oregonian Staff
A man shot and killed Sunday in front of a Scientology building in Los Angeles was a Florence resident who was on probation for stalking a Lane County judge. Also, he recently had served time in a Florence jail for threatening a tow truck driver.
A security guard shot Mario Majorski, 48, after Majorski threatened guests and another security guard with samurai swords at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, Los Angeles police said.
Majorski, who had numerous addresses in Los Angeles County and Oregon in the past two decades, was convicted of stalking Lane County Circuit Judge Debra Vogt in June 2007 and sentenced to 24 months' probation in September 2007, said Alex Gardner, Lane County district attorney-elect.
The stalking incident grew out of a landlord-tenant dispute in which the judge ruled against Majorski, Gardner said. Majorski sent the court a threatening letter and later was caught trying to carry a sharpened railroad spike into the courthouse.
"At the time, Mr. Majorski was muttering something about having to take out a judge," Gardner said Monday. "In the context of his earlier threatening letter and outburst in court when he lost, that was interpreted as threatening and stalking behavior to the judge."
Majorski also was arrested Oct. 26 after he threatened a tow truck driver, Doug Bushwar, with an ax handle. Bushwar responded to a call of a vehicle out of gas. When he arrived, Majorski was clearly agitated and ordered Bushwar not to cross the street to his pickup.
"He picked up the hatchet (handle)," Bushwar said Monday. "He used some profanity and said, 'Go get my gas.' And then he goes, 'I told you, now,' and he was shaking the ax at me."
Majorski pleaded guilty Oct. 28 and was released from the Florence jail on Oct. 30. Three days later, police were called after Majorski interrupted a Mormon church service and refused to leave.
The incident is the second high-profile case involving Oregon and Scientology. In 1996, Jairus Chegero Godeka walked into the church's downtown Portland office and shot and wounded four people, including a pregnant receptionist. A police officer persuaded Godeka to surrender.
On Monday, Los Angeles Detective Wendi Berndt told The Associated Press that Majorski had been associated with the Church of Scientology and that security guards were familiar with him. Surveillance tape showed he arrived in a red convertible about noon at the Los Angeles center and approached the guard with a sword in each hand before he was shot.
In Florence, Majorski moved into a ranch-style house on Munsel Lake Road about eight months ago, said neighbor Morry Bernard.
The two exchanged greetings, but then Bernard began finding gifts on his front porch for his four daughters.
"I returned them to him," said Bernard, a single parent. "It came off as kind of perverse." The gifts included a Hannah Montana karaoke machine, stuffed animals and other toys.
Bernard said Majorski told him, " 'I didn't mean anything by it. I'm just trying to be cool.' " But Bernard's daughters and other neighborhood children were afraid of Majorski, Bernard said.
"He'd dance in his front yard wearing devil's horns and all kinds of strange things when the kids were getting on the bus for school. Last week, he came out with 30 or 40 plastic coat hangers all over his arms. I didn't feel threatened or intimidated, but apparently he has an evil streak."
Lori Tobias:
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