Week #199 Shooting Report | INCLUDES TWO INVESTIGATION VIDEOS | 18 PHOTOS | UPDATED: STRIP CLUB SHOOTER SUSPECT ARRESTD | In addition to more stabbing calls, Homicide Detectives investigate two shooting deaths – and two more shootings that resulted in injuries …
This week, Portland Police officers are called to investigate two shootings in the Hazelwood neighborhood, one of them fatal; an Easter morning shooting in Lents; and a deadly domestic violence shooting in Gresham.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
As the East Portland News Week #199 Shooting Report begins with gun-involved homicides and injuries – one in Gresham, one in Lents, and two in the Hazelwood neighborhood.
This violence by people with guns continues to take place, despite the City of Portland’s 2023 two-year “investment” of $4.5 million in a “focused deterrence strategy to reduce gun violence” – through the Portland Ceasefire program, now set to expire at the end of April.
March 26
Son accused of shooting dad to death, in Gresham
Just northeast of outer East Portland, Gresham Police close off this cul-du-sac, as they investigate reports of shots fired.
Information about a shooting homicide on March 26 in Gresham – less than two miles northeast of outer East Portland’s Pleasant Valley neighborhood – was not revealed to us until after the East Portland News publishing deadline last week.
At 8:28 p.m. on that Friday, several Gresham Police Department (GPD) officers, and a couple of Portland Police Bureau officers, were sent to the report of a shooting in the cul-du-sac of SW Linneman Court, just north of 7th Avenue, in Gresham. Within nine minutes of the first arrivals, a total of 11 officers were centered on that location.
Neighbors look on, as Gresham Police and CSIs investigate a deadly shooting.
“This call began as [the report of] a disturbance at a house; we later learned that it involved an adult male and his adult son,” GPD Public Information Officer Adam Baker sketched out the incident for East Portland News.
“One adult male was killed in this incident; no other victims were hospitalized; one arrest has been made,” Baker added.
Inside this Gresham home, police officials say a father was shot to death by his own son.
In a later news release to reporters, Baker further revealed that arriving officers had “discovered that 46-year-old Joshua Heinrich was deceased from a gunshot, and a subject was detained for questioning at that time.”
During the investigation, GPD Homicide Division detectives learned that the detained person was Mr. Heinrich’s son.
19-year-old Myles Rapheal Menefee was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) on March 27 at 7:26 a.m. on a Class A Felony charge of Murder in the Second Degree–Domestic Violence, and a Class C Felony charge of Unlawful Use of a Weapon.
Currently, Menefee is being held on these charges, without bail, after being transferred to Inverness Jail.
March 31 at 12:28 a.m.
Drive-by shooting on Easter morning, in Hazelwood, hurts adult – with kids in the car
Officers close down East Burnside Street where it crosses over I-205, to investigate an early Easter Sunday drive-by shooting.
Just after midnight on Easter morning, a “Shooting” report sent PPB East Precinct officers to East Burnside Street at 100th Avenue. It was March 31st at 12:28 a.m.
Arriving officers didn’t find evidence of shooting right there. However, three blocks west, on the East Burnside Street “I-205 Viaduct”, they found numerous spent bullet shell casings – and a shot-up vehicle.
“Officers responded to reports of a shooting, and determined somebody driving a vehicle was shot by someone in a passing vehicle,” said nonsworn PPB Public Information Officer Terri Wallo-Strauss.
“The victim was transported to the hospital and is expected to survive; only one adult was injured – however there were two kids in the car, and two adults,” Wallo-Strauss told East Portland News.
Yellow evidence markers show the location of spent bullet shell casings in the street.
PPB Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST) was notified; however, no arrests have yet been made in this case. Although there wasn’t a request made to the public for information about this shooting, if you do happen to have information to share about this incident, email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, Attn: ECST, and make reference to Incident No. 24-78335.
March 31 at 11:03 a.m.
Clash leads to one wounded in Lents daytime shooting on Easter
After shots were reported at an outer East Portland gas station in the Lents neighborhood, Portland Police officers arrive and cordon off the area on Easter morning.
Again on Easter, this time at 11:03 a.m., PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched to another “Shooting-with-Weapon” call – this one in the Lents neighborhood – at the Space Age gas station at 8410 SE Foster Road.
Watch, as this shooting investigation gets underway – at two locations – in the Lents neighborhood:
This yellow evidence marker covers the first of several spent bullet shell casings found near pumps at the gas station.
A neighbor near the scene told East Portland News that, after a loud argument had escalated, someone started shooting. “I ducked, then ran back away from the commotion – so I didn’t see much, other than a car leaving with a victim inside,” the neighbor said.
Seven blocks east of the shooting location, SE 91st Avenue is closed off by officers who await the arrival of investigators.
These officers guard the spot where a gunshot victim was found.
Officers were soon at a second scene related to this crime. They’d closed off SE 91st Avenue, between Ramona Street and Foster Road, in front of the Woody Guthrie Place apartments, at 5800 SE 91st Avenue.
A Honda Passport SUV was stopped in the center of the street, facing southbound; its driver’s-side door was open.
The contents of this I-FAK kit, used by officers before the ambulance arrived, may have saved the shooting victim’s life.
On the sidewalk, near the open Honda’s door was an opened and used PPB I-FAK (Individual First Aid Kit), just feet from the main entrance of the apartment building.
“The initial investigation suggests there was an altercation between two people at a gas station and one of them shot the other before taking off,” confirmed nonsworn PPB Public Information Officer Terri Wallo-Strauss for East Portland News.
Although said to have been seriously injured, the shooting victim in this Honda is thought likely to survive.
“The injuries do not appear to be life-threatening,” Wallo-Strauss commented, adding that the “Enhanced Community Safety Team is investigating.”
No arrests have been made. Again, although there wasn’t a specific request made to the public for information about this shooting, if you do have information to share about this incident, email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, Attn: ECST, and make reference to Incident No. 24-78623.
April 1
UPDATED: One dead, one injured, in afternoon shooting outside Hazelwood strip club
After finding a dead man shot in the parking lot of this “gentleman’s club” in the Gateway District, officers cordon off the scene of the crime.
The mellow, warm, and sunny Monday afternoon of April 1st was disrupted in the Gateway District, when shots – lots of them – rang out in the parking lot of the Venue Gentleman’s Club at 9950 SE Stark Street.
Watch, as more and more police officers, PPB Homicide Unit detectives, and CSI staff investigate this fatal, daytime shooting:
PPB East Precinct officers, dispatched at 5:35 p.m. immediately cordoned off the parking lot that spans SE Stark and Washington Streets.
17 officers’ patrol SUVs lined both the eastbound and westbound center lanes of the couplet as the investigation got underway.
Near the club’s entrance are numerous yellow evidence markers, each one covering a spent bullet shell casing.
More than a dozen more evidence markers are set on the pavement near the middle of the parking lot.
News reporters arriving at the scene positioned their cameras to avoid taking video or photos of what appeared to be a body, about midpoint in the parking lot.
There was a grouping of yellow evidence markers over spent bullet shell casings near the establishment’s door; and another grouping was located midway in the parking lot, near the deceased victim.
PPB Homicide Unit detectives arrive and take over the investigation.
A person who reportedly witnessed the incident stopped briefly to speak with reporters off camera. The individual stated that, in addition to the deceased, another person was also shot – but had already been rushed away in an ambulance.
As time went on, PPB Homicide Unit detectives and crime scene investigators with the Bureau’s Forensic Evidence Division arrived in force, bringing the total count of PPB personnel to 24.
An officer prepares to place yellow police tape across the sidewalk, and into the street.
Officers who were ordered to “extend the crime scene” respectfully requested reporters to leave the SE Washington Street sidewalk – which all courteously did – and set up their gear on the sidewalk in front of the Olive Garden restaurant, across the lanes of traffic.
However, two of the three lanes on both east- and west-bound thoroughfares were left open, allowing afternoon drive-time vehicle traffic to pass.
PPB Forensic Evidence Division criminalists document the crime scene – including at least one bullet hole located in the front of a vehicle parked on the far east side of the parking lot.
Later that evening, a PPB spokesperson told reporters that arriving officers found one person with life threatening injuries and a second person deceased on the scene. No suspect or suspects were “immediately located”, the spokesperson added.
Into the evening, this homicide investigation continues.
UPDATE #1
Officials say this man, 35-year-old Morieo Camel-Harris, died in this shooting.
The victim in this case is identified as 35-year-old Morieo Camel-Harris, of Portland. The Medical Examiner determined Camel-Harris died of homicide by gunshot wound.
UPDATE #2
On April 15, the PPB revealed that, on Friday, April 12, in Vancouver, Washington, members of the Vancouver Police Department and the United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested the suspect a murder charge related to the homicide Camel-Harris in The Venue’s parking lot.
Arrested was 31-year-old Damariea R. Harris, Portland.
Harris was booked into the Clark County Jail on outstanding warrants for: Murder in the Second Degree with a Firearm, Attempted Murder in the Second Degree with a Firearm, Assault in the First Degree with a Firearm, Unlawful Use of a Weapon (two counts), and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
Harris is being held without bond. The process of requesting extradition to Multnomah County is underway.
If you have information on this incident, and haven’t yet spoken to police, contact Detective Calvin Goldring at calvin.goldring@police.portlandoregon.gov or Detective Brad Clifton at brad.clifton@police.portlandoregon.gov and reference case number 24-79807.
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This concludes the 199th week that that the East Portland News has issued “Weekly Shooting Reports”.
As we near our 200th-week anniversary of these ongoing reports, as shootings continue in our neighborhoods, we’ll keep reporting on them for you.
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