Week #98 Shooting Report | Sadly, it’s no surprise that whenever shootings happen, they’re frequently in our neighborhoods. Check this week’s ‘Shots Fired Log’ – the numbers are up, again …
Many outer East Portland neighborhoods were touched by shooting incidents this week, including two in Parkrose, plus others in Hazelwood, Mill Park, Montavilla, Foster-Powell, Powellhurst-Gilbert.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
As we approach our 100th Weekly Shooting Report, we’re not inclined to throw a party to celebrate: Because it still looks unlikely that the incidents involving violent criminals committing felonies (or misdemeanors) with guns are subsiding.
Members of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) District Officers and the Bureau’s specialty units – the Focused Intervention Team (FIT), and the Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST) – were kept fully occupied again this week.
Officers were working at full capacity, especially during a 24-hour period starting early on Friday, May 27th, when shooting incidents resulted in ten people being struck by gunfire across the City of Portland.
May 27: Shooting homicide
The only shooting death this week took place in the St. Johns neighborhood, about eight miles west of outer East Portland, but that did not mark any decrease in shootings east of the Willamette.
In the homicide, at 6:03 a.m. May 27, PPB North Precinct officers – and eventually Homicide Division detectives — were called to investigate a dead man found in a residence.
Officials say this man, Charles M. Edwards, Sr., was a shooting homicide victim. Family provided photo
On June 2, police identified the victim as 62-year-old Charles M. Edwards, Sr., of Portland. The medical examiner determined the manner and cause of death to be homicide by gunshot.
Shootings across outer East Portland
In daytime and in darkness, PPB officers and investigators respond to the rash of shootings in our area.
PPB officials provided what they characterized as: “A brief synopsis of the incidents of May 26th. Details are limited, as the cases are in the early stages of investigation; information is tentative, and subject to change.”
Although no further PPB information was provided about some of the shootings, we’re giving you the Case Number on all of them, in the hope that you can provide information.
May 26 at 1:32 a.m.
Shooting in Parkrose
Other than that this shooting took place on NE Wygant Street near 104th Avenue, no further information is available. This is Case No. 22-139282.
May 26 at 4:23 a.m.
Few details on Hazelwood shooting
During the week, there were nearly-nightly “Shots Fired” calls in the area of East Burnside Street at 147th Avenue. The one at 4:23 am on May 26 was a “Shooting-with Weapon” call. This is Case No. 22-139364.
May 27 at 2:57 a.m.
Street brawl leads to Mill Park injury shooting
In this “confrontation”, shots were fired in this usually quiet section of the Mill Park neighborhood, early on Friday morning, May 27.
Along SE Sherman Street near 128th Avenue, a “physical confrontation” between a group of people resulted in shots fired. Two of those involved in the altercation suffered gunshot wounds.
One of the individuals suffered critical, life-threatening injuries, and the other received a serious, but a non-life-threatening injury. The PPB’s ECST responded to the scene, and is actively investigating the incident, officials say. This is Case No. 22-140475.
May 27 at 3:10 a.m.
Shooting victim taken to hospital Emergency Department; is ‘uncooperative’
When a shooting victim was brought by a private vehicle here, to the Adventist Medical Center, the staff followed the law and notified police.
Although PPB East Precinct officers came to investigate, the shooting victim proved to be uncooperative.
May 27 at 3:49 a.m.
Car prowler shoots at a resident in Montavilla
In this incident, a resident on NE 92nd Avenue near Irving Street confronted individuals who were breaking into a vehicle. “Several shots were fired at the resident, but there were no injuries,” a PPB official reported.
Officers located a crime scene, and documented and seized evidence – but the suspect(s) had fled the area. ECST is following up on this; it’s Case No. 22-140500.
May 27 at 12:25 p.m.
Transient encampment shooting in Parkrose
Dispatched as a “Disturbance-with Weapon”, PPB North Precinct officers went to an area along NE Wygant Street near 104th Avenue. Apparently, at issue was a possibly-stolen motor vehicle – which led to reports of a shot fired. Officers located a crime scene and evidence; the ECST is conducting a follow-up investigation. No victims or suspects were located at that time. This is Case No. 22-140845.
May 27 at 6:04 p.m.
Officers follow up on Foster-Powell shooting
Police investigated this shooting, but the victim and shooter were both gone.
PPB East Precinct officers responded to disturbance, with shots fired, near the vacant parking lot for the Vietnamese Grace Bible Church along SE 71st Avenue near Rhone Street.
“Officers located a crime scene, and recovered evidence,” a PPB official reported. “A shooting victim later walked into a hospital; and, preliminary investigation connects that victim to this case.” On June 1 it was established that the victim had been released from the hospital. The PPB ECST is still investigating this shooting. This is Case No. 22-141139.
May 27 at 10:49 p.m.
In Powellhurst-Gilbert, gunshot victim claims to have been shot in a gunpoint robbery
After another person walked into a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officers responded. According to the patient, the shooting took place during a gunpoint robbery near the intersection of SE 113th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard, where a shot was fired when the victim struggled with the suspect over the firearm.
So far, officers haven’t been able to locate the crime scene; and investigators have no corroboration – indicating that the person may have been shot at a different location; and under different circumstances than were described. This is Case No. 22-141366.
If you have information, or can provide security camera video evidence that can help investigators with any shooting case, email them contact crimetips@portlandoregon.gov and be sure to include the Case Number. Or, tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers of Oregon, and perhaps receive cash rewards of up to $2,500.
~ SHOTS FIRED LOG ~
After showing a lesser number of “Shots Fired” calls documented in the past few reports, we were disappointed to see that this week’s total logged 44 such events.
Statistically interesting, in 24-hour periods when outer East Portland shootings are few in number, “Shots Fired” calls outside our area increase by about the same amount. This suggests that the actual number of “Shots Fired” calls, across the city, stay relatively the same, day after day – and possibly, those who are criminally responsible, just move around the city.
Some “Shots Fired” calls turn out to be actual injury or fatal shooting incidents; at other such calls, officers find no evidence of any shooting. But for you, we report all these calls.
May 25
22-139116 05/25/2022 @ 22:19:05 12600 Block of E BURNSIDE ST
22-139185 05/25/2022 @ 23:24:17 SE 122ND AVE / SE STARK ST
May 26
22-139352 05/26/2022 @ 03:55:05 12000 Block of SE LINCOLN ST
22-139353 05/26/2022 @ 03:56:59 SE 92ND AVE / SE BOISE ST
22-139363 05/26/2022 @ 04:22:56 16000 Block of E BURNSIDE ST
May 27
22-140357 05/27/2022 @ 00:03:42 11300 Block of NE SANDY BLVD
22-140400 05/27/2022 @ 00:47:33 NE GLISAN ST / NE 156TH AVE
22-140680 05/27/2022 @ 09:03:44 6000 Block of NE 78TH CT
22-140845 05/27/2022 @ 12:30:29 4700 Block of NE 104TH AVE
May 28
22-142201 05/28/2022 @ 19:43:35 NE 185TH DR / NE MARINE DR
22-19715 05/28/2022 @ 22:49:55 16700 Block of E BURNSIDE ST
22-142388 05/28/2022 @ 23:01:52 14200 Block of SE MILL ST
22-142440 05/28/2022 @ 23:53:00 14500 Block of SE POWELL BLVD
22-142445 05/29/2022 @ 00:00:51 SE 141ST AVE / E BURNSIDE ST
May 29
22-142457 05/29/2022 @ 00:22:09 10100 Block of SE WASHINGTON ST
22-142510 05/29/2022 @ 01:36:26 13200 Block of NE HALSEY ST
22-142563 05/29/2022 @ 02:50:39 14100 Block of E BURNSIDE ST
22-142569 05/29/2022 @ 02:53:52 9900 Block of SE HOLGATE BLVD
22-142570 05/29/2022 @ 03:01:35 9700 Block of NE EVERETT CT
22-142577 05/29/2022 @ 03:07:47 NE 102ND AVE / NE SACRAMENTO ST
22-142592 05/29/2022 @ 03:44:38 4800 Block of NE 103RD AVE
22-142847 05/29/2022 @ 12:11:44 14100 Block of E BURNSIDE ST
May 30
22-143520 05/30/2022 @ 03:17:18 16700 Block of SE MILL ST
22-143568 05/30/2022 @ 05:17:41 11100 Block of NE PRESCOTT ST
22-143651 05/30/2022 @ 08:39:27 8700 Block of NE MILTON ST
22-143761 05/30/2022 @ 11:29:44 12400 Block of NE HALSEY ST
22-144248 05/30/2022 @ 20:57:04 14200 Block of SE MILL ST
22-144320 05/30/2022 @ 22:03:11 NE 120TH AVE / NE FREMONT ST
22-144324 05/30/2022 @ 22:09:39 2500 Block of NE 117TH AVE
22-019974 05/30/2022 @ 22:13:32 SE 162ND AVE / E BURNSIDE ST
22-144398 05/30/2022 @ 23:34:08 8800 Block of NE SKIDMORE ST
May 31
22-019999 05/31/2022 @ 01:27:23 17600 Block of SE TIBBETTS ST
22-144506 05/31/2022 @ 02:02:56 NE 102ND AVE / NE HALSEY ST
22-144510 05/31/2022 @ 02:10:04 SE LINCOLN ST / SE 122ND AVE
22-144555 05/31/2022 @ 03:48:26 NE 150TH AVE / NE SANDY BLVD
22-144576 05/31/2022 @ 04:50:03 2600 Block of SE 160TH AVE
22-144591 05/31/2022 @ 05:25:34 NE 104TH AVE / NE WYGANT ST
22-144595 05/31/2022 @ 05:37:46 9200 Block of SE FOSTER RD
22-145362 05/31/2022 @ 20:50:47 SE 82ND AVE / SE FOSTER RD
22-145499 05/31/2022 @ 23:10:30 11800 Block of SE MORRISON ST
22-145518 05/31/2022 @ 23:29:20 SE 119TH AVE / SE DIVISION ST
June 1
22-145582 06/01/2022 @ 00:48:32 7400 Block of SE 87TH AVE
22-145656 06/01/2022 @ 03:12:17 SE 107TH AVE / SE FOSTER RD
22-146216 06/01/2022 @ 16:05:52 7700 Block of SE 92ND AVE
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Please be aware of what is taking place in your neighborhood this week. Don’t hesitate to call 9-1-1 and report suspicious activity. The life you save may be yours, or that of a family member.
© 2022 David F. Ashton ~ East Portland News™
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