Week #208 Shooting Report | There’s no letup: A man hit with multiple gunshot wounds in Hazelwood, and an Uber driver is shot to death in Powellhurst-Gilbert, near two schools …
Again this week Portland Police Bureau officers, investigators, and detectives are called to the scene of shootings.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
Yes, it’s been 208 weeks of shooting violence in outer East Portland neighborhood streets – creating almost nonstop mayhem.
Here are two of the more prominent shooting incidents this week:
June 3
Man wounded in Hazelwood shooting
After being shot in the legs, a man is loaded into an ambulance to be rushed to a local hospital.
Along SE Pine Street, between 119th and 122nd Avenues, someone fired off a number of shots in the wee hours of this Monday morning, June 3, while most folks in the apartments that line the street were sleeping.
Portland Police Bureau (PPB) East Precinct officers were dispatched at 2:52 a.m. that morning.
The street was closed off for hours, while members of the PPB’s Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST) and officers collected evidence, and tried to talk with witnesses who reportedly less than cooperative.
Officers guard the crime scene while the shooting investigation gets underway.
“Officers, who responded to reports of a shooting at this location, arrived and determined that an adult man had been shot multiple times in the legs,” PPB Public Information Manager Mike Benner told East Portland News. “The shooting victim was taken to a local hospital, and is expected to survive.”
The suspect or suspects had fled by the time officers arrived, Benner said, adding that no arrests have yet been made. Thus, this investigation is continuing. If you have information about this case, please e-mail crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov and reference Case No. 24-136154.
June 4
Uber driver killed, passenger wounded, in Powellhurst-Gilbert shooting
Portland Police units roll into a usually-peaceful cul-de-sac off SE Ramona Street, where a Uber driver was shot to death, and his passenger was wounded.
Just west of Gilbert Park Elementary School in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood, north of SE Ramona Street along the dead-end stub of 130th Place, bullets fired by an unknown gunman riddled the driver’s side of an Uber driver’s car, late on Tuesday evening, June 4.
“I heard eight or ten shots, and a little later, saw a guy running through yards, hop over a fence, and keep going,” a neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, told reporters.
North along SE 130th Place, the shooting investigation is underway.
At 11:56 p.m., PPB East Precinct officers, dispatched to this “Shooting with Weapon” report, quickly located two victims who had been shot while sitting inside of a vehicle.
The rideshare driver, an adult male, died at the scene. The driver’s side of the car was riddled with bullet holes.
Officers gave trauma first aid to the other victim, a teenage boy, until paramedics arrived and sped him off to an area hospital in critical condition.
With an armed gunman on the loose in the neighborhood, these officers gear up with helmets and ballistic protection body armor.
The following day, PPB officials confirmed that the man killed was working, at the time of the shooting, as a driver for a rideshare company, but didn’t specify which one. It later came out that he was a driver for Uber.
The passenger, a 17-year-old male, was his fare. That victim remains in the hospital with critical, life-threatening injuries.
Police say this Uber driver, 42-year-old Joshua Kelvin, was the one shot to death while working. Family-provided photo
On June 6, Portland Police named the driver shot to death as 42-year-old Joshua Kelvin, of Aumsville, Oregon, near Salem. The Medical Examiner confirmed that he’d died of “homicide by gunshot”.
This case remains under investigation. If you have information about this shooting, and haven’t yet spoken to detectives, contact Detective J.D. McGuire at jeff.mcguire@police.portlandoregon.gov or Detective Brent Christensen at brent.christensen@police.portlandoregon.gov, 503-823-2087. If you do, refer to Case No. 24-137851.
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As the 208th East Portland News “Weekly Shooting Report” concludes, we continue to hope for a decline in the shootings by violent people in our midst.
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