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A Medford man with a prior stalking conviction will serve a mandatory 15 years in prison after a jury convicted him in a series of late-night shootings into his estranged wife’s home in the summer of 2023.

Thomas Lee Parks, 48, was convicted by a jury last week on a string of felony charges that include attempted murder, attempted assault and stalking related to at least three shootings reported in July and August of last year at a home that belonged to Parks’ former wife in the 6000 block of Downing Road near Central Point.

The woman first called police in mid-July reporting that someone had been firing gunshots at her property every three to four nights. Detectives found bullet holes in multiple areas of her home and property, including a bullet hole in her bedroom.

The woman’s name was made public in a release from the Jackson County District Attorney’s office, but as a policy the Times does not identify victims in cases involving domestic violence or sexual assault.

The severity of the shootings escalated at around midnight Aug. 17, when a shot was reportedly fired seconds after a male visitor had left the front door of the home to go out to his truck, according to the release submitted by Chief Deputy District Attorney Patrick Green, who prosecuted the case.

The shooting prompted Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies to secure a perimeter, and called Search and Rescue to the scene utilizing resources such as an infrared drone, according to an affidavit filed by Detective Justin McCreadie in the case.

McCreadie saw Parks’ red 2003 Chevy S-10 pickup parked a short distance from the residence at the Whiskey River Bar, according to prosecutors. McCreadie took Parks into custody when he returned to his truck at about 2:51 a.m.

A search of the vehicle yielded a spent 9 mm cartridge and boxes of ammo on the driver-side floorboard. They found a Ruger 9mm handgun ditched in a bush next to a silver BMX bike that the woman recognized from when she was married to Parks.

Oregon State Police forensic investigators ultimately found DNA on both the gun and the bike. Investigators further connected the cartridge casing found in Parks’ truck and a shell the woman found on a road near her property to the same Ruger handgun, according to prosecutors.

Parks has been held in the Jackson County Jail since Aug. 30, jail records show. The woman testified in court last week that there had been no shootings on her property since his arrest.

After a three-day trial, the jury convicted Parks on two counts of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree assault, and single counts of unlawful use of a weapon, felon in possession of a firearm and stalking.

Attempted second-degree murder is a Measure 11 crime under Oregon law, carrying a mandatory minimum 90-month prison sentence. On the two convictions, Judge Kelly Ravassipour on Friday sentenced Parks to a combined 15 years in the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections with no possibility of parole or early release.