As men die in the Centennial and Montavilla neighborhoods – and a woman is murdered at one of the victim’s wake – one wonders if outer East Portland murders-by-gun will be increasing, unabated …

The good news was that nobody was murdered in these incidents, as gun violence played out in the Hazelwood, Mill Park, and Parkrose neighborhoods …

The house in the Parkrose Heights neighborhood wasn’t damaged, but the garage looks quite charred …

Two days apart: A triple homicide rattles Russell neighbors; and a man is shot in Hazelwood, as gun violence continues …

UPDATE: At first, it appeared as if the driver in the Russell crash survived, but later died in a tragic outer East Portland wreck, a passenger in Mill Park accident didn’t make it …

UPDATE: Police identify the man wanted for murdering Shai-India Harris, in Lents.  Three days, three gun violence incidents in outer East Portland leads to two murders, and one person wounded, in the Lents and Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhoods …

Officials say they made a grim discovery while investigating an outer East Portland disturbance …

Police officials say they’re concerned about a 240% increase in July shootings over last year. Most of them are right here, in outer East Portland. Take a look …

An explosion, in front of the Midland Regional Library, may have been accidental. Yet, a man was arrested in the case …

UPDATED: Here’s why police locked down six blocks around the area of interest in this typically quiet outer East Portland neighborhood …

Here’s why an outer East Portland street was closed Sunday evening, just east of a TriMet MAX station …

Questions surround how this outer East Portland resident came to be shot by a Gresham Police Department officer …