The Oregonian reported Maverick Lyon, 21, sued after Albany police shot him at least five times on Jan. 6 as he ran from a brother who had held him at knifepoint.

November 2, and Wednesday, and a release dated November 4, are not the same filing line. Jan. 6, 2025, and January 2026, and January 6, 2026, and Jan. 6 with no year, are not the same date. At least five times, and five times, and two shots plus five shots, are not the same count. Part of his lungs, and half of his right lung, are not the same surgery line. Six years and five months, and more than six years, are not the same sentence. A civil complaint is not a criminal conviction of the officers.

The Oregonian, by Maxine Bernstein, published Nov. 4, 2026, at 1:26 p.m. and updated at 2:39 p.m., with no zone on those clocks, reported a college student who was shot and seriously wounded by Albany police after he fled from his family's home, where his drug-impaired brother had held him at knifepoint, has filed a lawsuit against the police department, alleging negligence and excessive force. It reported Maverick Lyon, 21, who had grabbed a kitchen knife in the home in self-defense, was shot at least five times in the chest, back and face when he escaped out the back door of his family's North Albany home on Jan. 6. That sentence does not print a year. It reported the lawsuit alleges two officers fired on him after he had already dropped the kitchen knife, and that after he was shot and on the ground, officers yelled at him to roll over and then handcuffed him. NBC News, by Daniella Silva, published Nov. 5, 2026, at 6:24 p.m. EST, reported a college athlete who was shot multiple times by police while escaping a dangerous encounter with his brother alleges excessive force and negligence in a federal civil rights case filed Wednesday. It reported Maverick Lyon, a college lacrosse player, was home in Albany on Jan. 6 when his brother, who had relapsed into drug use, held him at knifepoint, attorneys with Stritmatter Law said in the suit. That sentence does not print a year. It reported their father called Albany police after he saw the altercation on a security video. It reported Lyon grabbed another knife in self-defense and escaped through the back door, and that according to the suit, after he dropped the knife, police shot him at least five times, even though he followed police commands. It reported the suit alleges excessive force, battery, negligence and violation of his Fourth Amendment rights, and that it seeks a jury trial and damages. Stritmatter Law, in a release posted November 4, 2026, whose structured data is time-stamped 2026-11-04T17:40:11-05:00, reported a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Albany, two police officers, Matt Thomas and Engle Diaz, Benton County, and a county probation officer. It reported the lawsuit alleges that on January 6, 2026, Dakota suffered a mental health incident in the kitchen and took Maverick hostage at knifepoint. The federal docket listed on Justia, Lyon v. City of Albany et al, case 6:2026cv02412, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, says the complaint was filed November 2, 2026, with a filing fee of $405, a jury demand, nature of suit civil rights, and cause 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It names the defendants as Benton County, Joshua Hall, Engle Diaz, Matt Thomas, and the City of Albany. It names Judge Ann L. Aiken, and a case management order signed November 3, 2026. The attorney on the complaint line is Jesse Merrithew. November 2, on the docket, and Wednesday, on NBC News, and a story and a law-firm release dated November 4, are not the same filing line. Nov. 4, 2026, was a Wednesday. Nov. 2, 2026, was a Monday. Against the police department, on The Oregonian, and the City of Albany, Matt Thomas, Engle Diaz, Benton County, and a probation officer, on Stritmatter Law, and those names plus Joshua Hall, on the docket, are not the same defendant list. NBC News names the city of Albany and Benton County and does not print the officers' names. The docket does not print Kenny Allin or Jon Wymore. The Oregonian does. The Gazette-Times, by Cody Mann, dated Nov. 5, 2026, with an updated line that read 6 mins ago when a search result loaded and did not print an absolute clock, printed a lede that a man shot five times by police while escaping a hostage situation is suing in federal court, alleging officers violated his civil rights. A later fetch of that page returned 429, and the paragraphs under the captions were subscriber-encoded, so the sentences used from that paper are the lede and the captions that loaded in plaintext. Five times, in that lede, and at least five times, on The Oregonian, NBC News, and the Stritmatter release, are not the same count. Alleging, and the lawsuit alleges, and a complaint on a docket, are not a finding that the officers used excessive force. Stritmatter Law printed that the allegations in the release are drawn from the plaintiff's complaint and have not been adjudicated in court.

The date of the shooting is not one line. The Oregonian and NBC News print Jan. 6 and do not print a year in that sentence. Stritmatter Law prints January 6, 2026. The OregonLive lead image, a security-camera still credited courtesy of Maverick Lyon, carries a stamp reading 01/06/2026 10:58:34 PST. A Gazette-Times caption says he was shot by Albany police as he fled a hostage situation Jan. 6, 2025, as detailed in Ring camera footage. Another caption on that page says he was shot by Albany police in January 2026, and that he was being held hostage by his brother, Dakota Lyon. Jan. 6, 2025, and January 2026, and January 6, 2026, and a stamp reading 01/06/2026, are not the same date. The Oregonian reported John Dakota Lyon, known as Dakota, was sentenced in June in Benton County to six years and five months in state prison after pleading guilty to attempted kidnapping, unlawful use of a weapon and coercion stemming from the Jan. 6 encounter. NBC News reported Dakota Lyon was later sentenced to more than six years for the incident with his brother, and that according to KVAL-TV of Eugene he acknowledged his responsibility and his attorney said Lyon wished he could have taken the bullets instead of his brother. Six years and five months, and more than six years, are not the same sentence. The plea and the counts are The Oregonian. The KVAL sentences are NBC News. That plea is Dakota Lyon's criminal case. It is not a criminal charge against the officers. What the complaint says happened is not one sequence. The Oregonian reported that on Jan. 5 the parents alerted Benton County officials that Dakota had relapsed, that a probation officer visited and spoke with him but did not take him into custody, and that the next morning Dakota returned around 10 a.m. It reported that around 10:28 a.m. Dakota called their father, David Lyon, and that during a roughly 20-minute call he became agitated and, in the lawsuit's words, delusional and nonsensical, then grabbed a large kitchen knife and declared his brother a hostage. It reported David Lyon called 911 at 10:48 a.m. and described the older son as shirtless, wearing pajama pants, and on post-prison supervision, and the younger brother in a long-sleeve gray shirt. It reported Officers Kenny Allin and Jon Wymore knocked on the front door with no response, and that Officer Matt Thomas went to the back without talking to the officers in front. It reported Thomas radioed that he could see a male with a knife, shouted to step away, and did not identify anyone by name. It reported Maverick Lyon mouthed, Help me, and that Officer Engle Diaz joined Thomas and also drew his gun. It reported Maverick Lyon opened the back door, dropped the knife before crossing the threshold, and ran out with both hands empty, and that Thomas shouted drop it and fired two shots. It reported Diaz also fired after the knife had been dropped, continued firing after Maverick Lyon was on the ground in a fetal position, and fired a total of five shots. It reported that after he was on the ground Thomas called him by his first name and yelled for him to get on his stomach, and that Dakota Lyon, still armed with a knife, stood in the doorway. Stritmatter Law reported Thomas fired twice and Diaz fired five times, continuing to shoot even after Maverick fell, curled into a fetal position, and faced away, and that the complaint alleges surveillance video establishes he had dropped the knife before either officer fired. Two shots, and five shots, are both on those pages. Two plus five is seven. At least five, and five times in the Gazette-Times lede, are not that sum. NBC News does not print two and five. It reported an Albany Police Department statement at the time that officers were involved in a shooting after they responded to a domestic disturbance and encountered a person with a knife, that two officers fired their weapons, striking the person who had the knife, and that the officers immediately rendered medical aid until emergency personnel arrived. Immediately rendered medical aid, in that department statement, and yelled at him to roll over and then handcuffed him, in the lawsuit as The Oregonian reported it, and ordered him onto his stomach and handcuffed him while he was bleeding, as Stritmatter Law reported the complaint, are not the same medical line. A Gazette-Times caption says he dropped a knife as he exited and police fired upon him, and that he had picked up the knife after convincing his brother he would team up with him to confront their father. Another caption says an officer continued to fire after he dropped the knife and went down. Gray, in the father's clothing description on The Oregonian, and grey, in the same story's sentence about the shirt he still had on when he ran, are not the same spelling. A person with a knife, in the department statement NBC News printed, and a man who the lawsuit says had already dropped the knife, are not the same person line.

The injuries are not one operative note. The Oregonian reported he spent four weeks in the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries, resulting in the removal of part of his lungs, appendix and spleen, that he missed the spring semester at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire as well as his senior lacrosse season, but was able to play again this semester, and that his facial injuries will require orthopedic and plastic surgery, according to one of his lawyers, Alicia LeDuc Montgomery. It reported he was discharged with feeding and waste tubes. NBC News reported his attorneys said surgeons removed half of his right lung, his spleen, his appendix, and performed extensive reconstructive surgery on his digestive system. Stritmatter Law printed that same half-of-his-right-lung sentence and reported an emergency eight-hour operation at Samaritan Corvallis General Hospital. Part of his lungs, and half of his right lung, are not the same surgery line. St. Anselm, on The Oregonian, and Saint Anselm, on NBC News and Stritmatter Law, are not the same spelling. Played again this semester, and returned to his college campus last summer, are The Oregonian. NBC News and the Stritmatter release do not print that return. The Benton County district attorney ruled the shooting justified. The Oregonian reported Ryan S. Joslin wrote that the officers, in real time, had only fractions of a second to decide how to act, that the decision to fire was based on an objectively reasonable belief that it was necessary to protect themselves or fellow officers, that the outcome was an absolute tragedy, and that he was confident the officers would not have wished it to turn out that way. NBC News reported the same fractions-of-a-second sentence and the objectively reasonable belief sentence, and also that the decision must be made in light of what the officers knew and perceived leading up to and at the exact time their decision was made. Absolute tragedy is The Oregonian. The exact-time sentence is NBC News. A ruling that a shooting was justified is not a judgment on this civil complaint. Laura Hawkins, a spokesperson for the city of Albany, declined comment on the lawsuit Wednesday, The Oregonian reported. NBC News reported Benton County said it does not comment on pending litigation, that the city of Albany did not immediately respond, and that the district attorney's office did not immediately respond. Declined comment Wednesday, and did not immediately respond, are not the same answer. The parents' statements are not one quotation. The Oregonian reported David and Laura Lyon said they want answers, accountability and changes, and that David Lyon said he called the police that day because he wanted to protect Maverick, and instead the people he called for help ended up nearly taking his life. NBC News and Stritmatter Law print a statement from David and Laura that begins, I have always believed that when you call 911, help is coming, and that includes the protect-Maverick sentence. The Oregonian does not print the 911 sentence. Stritmatter Law reported Maverick Lyon is represented by Alicia LeDuc Montgomery of Stritmatter Law and Jesse Merrithew of Levi Merrithew Horst PC. The Oregonian quotes both lawyers and does not print the firm name Levi Merrithew Horst. The civil allegations are what the complaint says. They are not a criminal conviction of the officers. No page read here printed a criminal charge against Matt Thomas, Engle Diaz, Kenny Allin, Jon Wymore, or Joshua Hall. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.