Week #201 Shooting Report | INCLUDES TWO INVESTIGATION VIDEOS | 16 Photos | UPDATED | Violent shootings resume in outer East Portland …
Responding to a rash of gunshot reports this week, Portland Police Bureau officers look into multiple incidents in outer East Portland – one of them deadly.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
Last week marked an even 200 weeks since Portland’s Police Commissioner – Mayor Ted Wheeler – announced the disbanding of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Gun Violence Reduction Team (GVRT). The number of shooting incidents in outer East Portland spiked the very next day, and nearly tripled in a month.
Instead of reporting a shooting incident once every couple of weeks, East Portland News began combining each week’s many shooting stories into one weekly article.
Fortunately, during Week #200, there were no significant shooting incidents in outer East Portland; just lots of “Shots Fired” calls.
That all changed this week. PPB officers responded to 38 “Shots Fired” calls, and four significant shooting incidents.
April 13
Powellhurst-Gilbert shooting victim refuses care; clams up
Officers find “evidence of shooting” on a neighborhood street.
Gunshots rang out on Saturday night, April 13 in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood along SE Boise Street, west of 122nd Avenue – leading to 16 PPB East Precinct officers responding to the incident at 9:03 p.m.
According to neighbors, the shooting took place in the 12000 block of SE Boise Street, and the gun wielder took off in a dark sedan.
However, the victim walked – or was driven – north on nearby SE 118th Place, which dead-ends into Gladstone Street, and eventually to the Gladstone Square Apartments, where the narrow street terminates.
The Portland Fire & Rescue Mill Park Ladder Truck Company #7’s rig is parked on SE Boise Street, while its firefighter/paramedics hike in to examine the shooting the victim.
Lined with vehicles, SE 118th Place proved too narrow for Portland Fire & Rescue Mill Park Ladder Company #7 firefighters to drive the engine into the apartment complex; its paramedics got out and walked in to the area. An ambulance did manage to snake its way down to the apartment complex area, however.
Responding officers did find evidence of shooting, and eventually located the victim. Neighbors said it was a teenage male – who then declined medical treatment, and who also refused to cooperate with the police investigation.
In less than an hour, this shooting incident is “cleared”, and officers return to patrol their assigned districts.
By 9:48 p.m., all law enforcement officers and medical personnel had left the area.
Although there wasn’t a request made to the public for information about this shooting, if you do happen to have relevant information to share about this incident, email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, and make reference to Incident No. 24-91445.
UPDATED April 15
Man dies, woman wounded, in Lents daytime shooting
SE Powell Boulevard is closed to all vehicles and pedestrians, east of 82nd Avenue of Roses, while an afternoon shooting homicide is investigated.
PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched Monday afternoon, April 15 on a shooting report in Lents at SE Powell Boulevard, and 84th Avenue at 2:08 p.m. There, we found police cruisers stopped in front of, and behind, a westbound white Buick Sedan.
After speaking with a witness, this officer calls his supervisor on the phone.
It was there that officers found two adults with gunshot wounds. “One of the adults, a male, was declared deceased at the scene,” PPB Public Information Manager Mike Benner told reporters. “The second adult, a female, was transported to an area hospital by ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.”
The actual shooting scene was pegged by officers to have been a couple of blocks east, in the westbound lanes of SE Powell Boulevard at 87th Avenue – just across the street from the Lents office of the Oregon DMV.
Watch the subsequent murder investigation take place, in our exclusive video:
At that intersection, on the north side of the street, there were numerous yellow evidence markers on the pavement pinpointing spent bullet shell casings.
A sergeant and an officer protect the area where the shooting took place.
A witness told East Portland News that she’d just come out of the DMV, and the rapid gunfire caught her attention. “It was a car-to-car shooting; the shooter drove off a dark SUV of some kind.”
Detectives from the PPB Homicide Detail who soon arrived found bullet holes in the passenger’s side of the Buick.
An officer and a sergeant interview a witness, at the east end of the crime scene.
UPDATE
This man, 30-year-old Marc-Leon Telean, was killed in what Portland Police detectives are calling a “random shooting”. ID card photo via PPB
On April 22, Portland Police identified 30-year-old Marc-Leon Telean as the man who died on the pavement of SE Powell Boulevard. The Medical Examiner determined that Telean died of homicide by gunshot wound.
“Telean had recently moved to Portland from Haiti,” a PPB spokesperson said. “While this remains an active homicide investigation, detectives believe this was a random shooting and Telean did not know the suspect(s) who shot him.”
This makes this shooting even more troubling, neighbors are saying.
If you have information on this incident, and haven’t spoken to police, contact Detective Jeffrey Pontius at Jeffrey.pontius@police.portlandoregon.gov or Detective Stephen Gandy at Stephen.gandy@police.portlandoregon.gov; and, refer to case number 24-92990.
April 16
Man shot during ‘road rage’ incident in Wilkes
A man, wounded in a “road-rage” shooting, is rushed to a local hospital by ambulance.
While this crime began with a report to PPB North Precinct officers of “Shots Fired” – on April 16 at 6:40 p.m. – it turned out that at least one shot struck someone, and it began as a “road rage” incident in the Wilkes East neighborhood of unincorporated Multnomah County, that Tuesday evening.
“Officers responded and determined that an adult male was driving his vehicle in the area of NE 162nd Avenue and Glisan Street when he was rear-ended by another vehicle,” the PPB’s Mike Benner told East Portland News.
“When the bumping vehicle then took off, the victim gave chase in his vehicle,” Benner related. “It appears somebody in the ‘suspect vehicle’ fired a shot at the victim in his vehicle – and he suffered non-life-threatening injuries.”
One of the many officers assigned to this incident prepares an official report.
Benner said that officers did find the suspect vehicle parked next to Margaret Scott Elementary School, in Portland’s Wilkes neighborhood, along NE Sacramento Street near 46th Drive – but “the suspect was not with the vehicle,n or in the area.”
Again, there’s been no request by the PPB for information from the public about this shooting, but if you can provide any further information, email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, and add that it is related to Incident No. 24-94129.
April 17
Two injured in Argay Terrace shooting
After two shootings within an apartment complex, police tape closed NE 131st Place, and a police cruiser temporarily blocked NE Prescott Drive even to residents.
As East Portland News returned to report on yet another shooting in the Argay Terrace neighborhood, on the Wednesday evening of April 17, we recalled the many other incidents near this same area – NE Prescott Drive and 131st Place, just south of Sandy Boulevard.
~ These included the January 1, 2022, shooting at 1:48 a.m. reported in the Week #78 Shooting Report, in which an uncle and his nephew were murdered at the Darrin’s Place Apartments complex. Another man died on February 5, 2022 in a shooting a half-block away, as reported in the Week #83 Shooting Report.
~ More recently, in the Week #163 Shooting Report, a carjacking on July 28, 2023 led to a shootout in the parking lot an apartment complex just one block away Wednesday night’s shooting.
Officers and investigators move around the apartment complex parking lot as they look into this latest double-shooting incident.
Fortunately, at this week’s “Shooting-with Weapon” incident, no one was found dead. At 8:39 p.m., ten PPB North Precinct officers were again dispatched to Darrin’s Place Apartments. Portland Fire & Rescue Parkrose Station #2’s Engine Company paramedics were also dispatched there, as well as were two ambulances.
Get a look at the subsequent investigation, and officers seeking a suspect,
in our exclusive video:
NE 131st Place was initially cordoned off between Prescott Drive and Sandy Boulevard. Then, a PPB sergeant requested backup – and soon 26 more officers had arrived, or were on their way.
Shortly after arriving, several PPB cruisers took off with lights and sirens activated, heading west on NE Sandy Boulevard. The units blocked off the neighboring Sandy Terrace and Hidden Oaks apartment complex parking lots along NE 125th Place.
Officers close off streets, forming a perimeter around the blocks where one of the shooters may have run to hide.
Other officers then completed closing off the containment area by shutting down NE Prescott Drive, from 125th Place to the original location of the dispatch, 131st Place.
While officers searched driveway-by-driveway and yard-to-yard, the PPB’s Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) squad arrived, and soon had two drones in the air to join the search.
Residents, many of them trying to return home from work, were told to wait outside the containment area. “Try to find a place you can go for an hour or so,” advised an officer stationed at a roadblock.
This officer, who is with the PPB’s Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Unit, prepares a second drone for flight – in hopes of locating the shooting suspect hiding in the labyrinth of apartment complex buildings in the area.
In addition to officers, detectives and crime scene investigators, at least one Multnomah County Parole and Probation officer was also at the scene.
Official word from Portland Police
When we asked PPB Public Information Manager Mike Benner for the details of this incident after it was over, he told East Portland News what had happened.
“Officers responded to reports of a shooting at that location, and found two victims,” Benner reported. “The shooting victims were in different apartment units – both were suffering from non-life-threatening injuries, however.
“Initial information suggests this incident involved people known to each other. In fact, one of the victims is also one of the suspected shooters – and, once released from the hospital, he’s to be held at the Multnomah County Detention Center on a warrant.
“However, the other shooting suspect is currently still at large,” Benner concluded.
As an officer steadies the ladder, a sergeant heads up to take a look on top of a car park shelter.
If you can provide information to share about this incident, including perhaps the whereabouts of the other suspect, email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, and refer to Incident No. 24-95119.
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As the dust settles, and the spent bullet shell casings are bagged for evidence, so ends the 201st East Portland News “Weekly Shooting Reports”. To review exactly when, why, and how our weekly “Shooting Report” articles began and continue, CLICK HERE.
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