At approximately 10:58 pm on January 23, 2011, police officer Steven Dodds pulled over a 1984 Dodge pickup truck owned by David Anthony Durham, of Sauvie Island, Portland, Oregon, for a routine traffic violation in Lincoln City, Oregon. During the interaction, Durham told Dodds that he was driving to a military base in California. At some point during the traffic stop, Durham shot Dodds multiple times in the chest, critically injuring him, and then fled in his vehicle, heading south on Highway 101.

An extensive search for Durham took place in the days following his disappearance by local, state and federal law enforcement officers; SWAT teams were also instated. Police performed a house-by-house search across Waldport and Bayshore, a community immediately north of Alsea Bay. Despite the extensive search, authorities were unable to locate Durham, and there have been no verified sightings of him since the evening of January 23, 2011. Initially, law enforcement theorized that Durham may have been hiding in an abandoned house in the woods or in one of the area’s numerous vacant vacation homes. Another possibility raised by law enforcement was that Durham had attempted to swim across Alsea Bay and drowned.

A Federal arrest warrant for Durham was issued January 29, 2011, and as of 2018 is still outstanding. Durham was profiled on the television series America’s Most Wanted shortly after his disappearance.

David Anthony Durham (March 11, 1967 – disappeared January 23, 2011) is an American wanted fugitive who disappeared under mysterious circumstances after shooting and critically injuring a police officer during a traffic stop in Lincoln City, Oregon. After shooting the officer, Durham’s vehicle was rendered inoperable via a spike strip 40 miles (64 km) south in Waldport, where he fled on foot and began shooting at a crab fisherman in Alsea Bay before disappearing. Durham’s whereabouts remain unknown. He was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted List on January 29, 2011.