Powellhurst-Gilbert shooting leads to arrest and seized guns

SHOOTING REPORT | See how the good work of the Portland Police led to the capture of an armed suspect in outer East Portland over the Memorial Day Holiday. And, find out why another man was wounded in Montavilla – and it wasn’t a crime …

Portland Police Bureau officers investigate more shootings in outer East Portland this week.

Story and photos by David F. Ashton

A non-injury shooting in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood on Saturday morning, May 24, ended with an arrest of a Felony fugitive, and with Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers seizing a pistol and a tactical shotgun.

It started when PPB East Precinct officers – and a police dog “K9 Unit” – were sent, at 9:02 a.m., to a “Shots Fired” call on the east side of the Division Center shopping area along SE 122nd Avenue, south of Division Street.

Arriving officers confronted two men they believed to have been involved. One man put his gun down and surrendered; he was detained, and his handgun was seized as evidence.

Officers seize this semiautomatic handgun, and the additional loaded magazine, from one of the men suspected in this shooting incident. PPB image

The other, in a white Jeep Cherokee, initially stopped – but then took off and attempted to elude the police.

The fleeing driver didn’t get far in his Jeep; a PPB officer used the PIT (pursuit intervention technique) maneuver to make the vehicle spin out and stop only a block away, at SE 119th Avenue and Clinton Street. The suspect jumped out and ran – jogging north on SE 119th Avenue, and dodging traffic as he crossed SE Division Street; he continued hoofing it west for a block until he was overtaken and arrested at SE 117th Avenue.

After a shooting in the shopping center, officers spread out looking for one of the suspects who attempted to get away.

Detectives with the PPB’s Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST) came to investigate. They concluded that both the men involved had had guns, and were pointing them at each other. Another involved person was interviewed and released at the scene.

Through the course of the investigation, detectives located and seized this shotgun as evidence. PPB image

Arrested was 28-year-old Lamariea A. Taylor, who was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center at 2:58 p.m. that afternoon on charges of Attempt to Elude Police by Vehicle, Attempt to Elude Police on Foot, Reckless Driving, Recklessly Endangering Another Person, Interfering with a Peace Officer, Escape in the Third Degree, and Resisting Arrest.

Taylor is currently being held in lieu of $40,000 at Inverness Jail on a Felony Fugitive charge.

Additional investigation by the ECST will determine who fired shots; and, whether their actions were criminal in nature. If you have information about this case, and have not already talked to police, please e-mail crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov – to the attention of ECST, and refer to Case No. 25-136040.

May 27
Man wounded in Montavilla shooting

Police, and an ambulance, are summoned to this shooting in Montavilla.

PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched – as was an ambulance – on Tuesday morning May 27, at 10:35 a.m., for a shooting reported the area of SE 92nd Avenue and Stark Street.

“Officers who responded to this call found an adult male with a gunshot wound to the hand,” PPB Public Information Manager Mike Benner later told East Portland News.

“The individual was taken to a local hospital for treatment,” Benner added. “Officers determined the man had negligently discharged his own firearm while handling it.”

Gun safety pays!

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