Domestic Mt. Scott-Arleta tiff leads to bullet-scarred wall on Labor Day

SHOOTING REPORT | Here’s why there was a large callout of police officers near Mt. Scott Park on Labor Day evening …

After the first police cruiser arrives, more than a dozen come to the Mt. Scott-Arleta, responding to a reported disturbance – with a weapon.

Story and photos by David F. Ashton

As the Labor Day holiday weekend came to a close late on Monday, September 1 – and most East Portland neighbors were tucking in for the evening – a domestic disturbance erupted in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood, across the street from Mt. Scott Park.

At first, a few Portland Police Bureau (PPB) East Precinct officers were dispatched at 10:49 p.m. to a “Disturbance–with Weapon” call at a home near SE 71st Avenue at Reedway Street. However, we found only one officer at that location.

Officers continue to arrive at a residence where the disturbance is taking place.

Soon, a total of 14 officers were gathered along, and blocked, SE Ramona Street, near 71st Avenue, one block south of the originally-dispatched location.

No ambulances were sent.

Soon, SE Ramona Street is filled with police vehicles as officers respond to this disturbance call.

“This appears to be a domestic incident, involving people known to each other,” PPB Public Information Officer Terri Wallo Strauss told East Portland News the following day.

“There was a disturbance and someone fired a gun at the wall; but there were no injuries,” Wallo Strauss said.

Firing a gun in the city is illegal, but we were not informed of any citations or arrests which might have arisen from what was apparently a fit of pique, involving firing a weapon at an inanimate surface that had committed no offense to anyone.

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