Coroner Dotti Owens says Heriberto Ortega, 20, died Monday at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. 

The Ada County Coroners Office released the name of the Nampa man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a standoff with police.

The incident began about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, November 29th when a Malheur County Sheriffs Office deputy pulled a driver over for a traffic infraction at SE 9th Avenue and SE 4th Street in Ontario, Oregon.

Two Ontario Police officers arrived a short time later as a backup. One officer started to speak with a front-seat passenger, later identified as Ortega. When the officers realized Ortega had a handgun, the officer fired at least one round. Ortega, apparently uninjured, then took off running.

Officers later found Ortega holed up in an apartment in the 500 block of SE 6th Avenue in Ontario. Police set up a perimeter and tried to convince Ortega to come out and surrender. Officers shut down traffic in the area and evacuated a number of neighbors.

During the nearly three-hour negotiations, several shots were heard fired from inside the house. Fearing that Ortega may have turned the weapon on himself, the Malheur County emergency action team forced entry into the house and discovered that Ortega had, in fact, suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

He was transported to a Boise hospital where he was initially listed in critical condition. He later died at the hospital.

The case is under investigation by both the Oregon State Police and the Malheur County Sheriffs Office.

Voters approved a resolution that will allow recreational marijuana dispensaries within city limits with a three percent tax on every sale.

Even before election day potential owners started camping out in hopes of starting a cannabis dispensary on the Oregon border, the people camping out were happy to see the initiative past.

The city also anticipated the possibility of legalizing dispensaries by holding public meetings and listening to the citizens to put buffers in to protect residents.

Those buffers include dispensaries can't be within a thousand feet of parks and schools, 500 feet away from residential areas in a designated commercial or industrial zone and dispensaries can't be within 1,000 feet of each other.

"Possibly ten to fifteen," said Dan Cummings the Community Development Director. "It's tough, but including the urban growth boundaries where they have the option to go out and annex into the city I roughly come up with around fifteen."

Cummings said he gets between ten and twenty calls a day from people inquiring about opening a dispensary and that also helps to explain why so many people started camping out to get in line.

Cummings has come up with a plan that he will unveil to the city council on Thursday in an effort to come up with some way of forming a line without all the people having to camp in the cold until January when the resolution becomes official.

A camp has formed near the Ontario community development center, it's potential marijuana dispensary owners who are getting in line in case the voters approve recreational cannabis dispensaries in Oregon.

"We honestly didn't expect people to be standing in line at this point," said Steven Meland who owns Hot Box farms a dispensary in Huntington thirty miles west of Ontario. "We just wanted to get in line when we saw somebody else start the line."

Last week the Ontario city council approved new buffers that would require potential dispensaries to be a thousand feet away from each other, 500 feet away from residential areas and in designated commercial or industrial zones.

This goes along with buffers already put in place that prevent dispensaries from being a thousand feet away from schools and parks.

"On a map, it takes out about 97-98 percent of the area in Ontario," said city council member Norm Krume. "They are fighting for land, it is first come, first serve so it is not like a new Star Wars movie, this is millions of dollars at stake."

Keep in mind that voters still have to decide on whether recreational dispensaries will be allowed within Ontario city limits when people go to the polls on Tuesday, however, if this resolution passes it is likely this camp will be here until January when the resolution becomes official.

The livelihood of Hot Box Farms is at stake, the Huntington dispensary sees a lot of customers from neighboring Idaho and with Ontario sitting right on the border this market will be huge for the marijuana industry.

"We are going to have a lot of overtime," said Meland. "We still have to run our shop but we also have to pay people to keep our spot in line."

The city also has to be ready if the resolution passes and that is why they have started putting in buffers after listening to public testimony over the last month.

Would-be recreational marijuana retailers are lining up outside Ontario's planning offices, so they can nab retail licenses should voters repeal a ban on pot sales within city limits.

The City Council recently voted to impose a 1,000-foot buffer on adult use marijuana stores, which means there will only be space for about 15 stores if the local measure to repeal the ban passes Tuesday.

The Argus Observer reports that city planners are unsure of how to deal with the line.

If the measure passes, people might remain in line until Jan. 2nd -- the first day the city would issue licenses.

Measure 23-61 would allow the sale of recreational marijuana with a 3 percent sales tax.

Ontario is near the Idaho border and about an hour from Boise.

(by Associated Press)