Week #158 Shooting Report | INCLUDES 2 INVESTIGATION VIDEOS | Because shooting crimes keep happening in outer East Portland, these weekly reports continue …
Portland Police officers are called to the scene of more shootings, again this week, in outer East Portland.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
As we publish the 158th edition of the East Portland News “Weekly Shooting Report” – new readers may wonder when the spike in shootings began, why, and who is responsible. CLICK HERE to see this updated history that includes the millions of dollars in “social investments” made by the City of Portland that supposedly will stop criminals – increasingly teenagers – from shooting people.
June 20
Lents shooting injures one
This shooting story starts here, at the doors of a local hospital’s emergency department.
After a gunshot victim was taken by private car to the emergency department of an outer East Portland hospital, on Tuesday evening, June 20, the medical staff contacted the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), as is required by law, to report the arrival of a shooting case at 8:22 p.m.
Officers learned that the incident took place in the cul-de-sac of SE Mt Scott Court, just east of 92 Avenue, near the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
PPB Focused Intervention Team officers arrive to investigate the shooting.
“Officers’ initial investigation suggests the victim, an adult male, was shot by an unknown suspect or suspects, who left the scene and ahve not been immediately located,” PPB Public Information Officer Sergeant Kevin Allen told East Portland News.
The PPB’s Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST) and Focused Intervention Team (FIT) investigators were dispatched to the scene. The case is not closed, and citizen information on it is being sought.
If you have information about this case, please provide it by e-emailing crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, to the attention of ECST – and, please reference Case No. 23-162545.
June 22 ~ 12:52 a.m.
Teen shooters at Hazelwood food carts trapped after long standoff in Glenfair
After a shooting wounds two victims at a food cart court along SE Stark Street, officers close off the thoroughfare to trail the suspects into a nearby condo unit. Courtesy KGW-TV
In the wee hours of Thursday, June 22, two adults were injured in a shooting on SE Stark Street, and – hours later, and after a long standoff – eight juveniles were detained in the case. Here’s the rest of the story …
PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched at 12:52 a.m. to the food cart pod in the parking lot of Everyday Bargains, located along SE Stark Street, just east of 146th Avenue.
After the area is secured by officers, paramedics enter to stabilize the two shot victims for transport to a hospital.
“When officers arrived they found two adults, one male and one female, with gunshot wounds,” reported PPB spokes person Sgt. Allen. “Officers provided trauma first aid until emergency medical responders could take over with advanced medical care before taking the victims to a local hospital. Both victims’ injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.”
Watch this standoff unfold, and the crime scene investigation:
Officers learned that several suspects took off running east along SE Stark Street, and then north on 148th Avenue, into the Glenfair neighborhood.
Witnesses pointed out that the subjects had ducked into the no-name, two-story apartment complex at 300 148th Avenue, and were apparently holed up in Apartment 2.
After daybreak, SERT officers are in position to capture the remaining suspects in the apartment who had been ignoring commands to surrender.
While officers surrounded the apartment complex and loudly called the occupants out, the incident commander used the Public Alerts telephone system to notify area residents of the police activity and ask them to stay inside with doors locked as a safety precaution.
After more loud-hailing the target apartment, police took into custody three juveniles complied – but the others didn’t budge.
While the standoff continues, ECST and FIT officers investigate the crime scene.
Because suspects were in the apartment, the Incident commander called in the PPB’s Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) and the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT). Soon, 33 officers and command staff were at the scene.
Perhaps hearing the sharp bark of the police dog encouraged the last suspects to surrender.
As the last three hold-outs stayed hunkered down, at about 9:30 a.m. over the SERT unit’s loud-hail system could be heard, “We know you’re in there. We’ve seen you in the apartment. We’re not leaving; the building surrounded. Come out with your hands up. If you do not, police dogs will be sent in and they will bite you …”
Not long after, the remaining three subjects surrendered.
Seen from blocks away, two of the three remaining teens are detained. Courtesy KPTV Fox News 12
In all, eight juveniles were detained in the shooting, pending additional investigation.
The PPB’s ECST and FIT officers are investigating the crime. Have information? Email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, to the attention of ECST – and say it’s about Case No. 23-163685.
June 22 ~ 5:27 p.m.
Woman injured in Centennial apartment complex shooting
In the entry driveway of the Arbor Glen Apartments in the Centennial neighborhood, PPB “Focused Intervention Team” officers begin investigating this shooting.
Later in the afternoon of June 22, PPB East Precinct officers – some of them still on duty from the morning’s standoff in the Hazelwood neighborhood – were called to another “Shooting-with Weapon” call at 5:27 p.m. on SE 145th Avenue near Clinton Street, at the Arbor Glen Apartments.
Watch a brief video, taken from the street, of this investigation:
Six police officers – including members of the PPB’s FIT unit, were investigating the scene, where they found more than just “evidence of shooting” in the complex’s driveway.
This is one of the many evidence markers at the scene, it shows the location of a spent bullet casing.
“In this shooting, one female victim transported to the hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries,” Sgt. Allen told East Portland News that evening.
“The suspect left the scene, and no arrests have yet been made,” Sgt. Allen continued. “However, one male was arrested, on an unrelated restraining order violation.”
Email information to help solve this shooting case to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, Attention: FIT and reference Case No. 23-164271.
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That’s it for this week.
Quite likely we’ll publish yet another weekly summary of outer East Portland shootings that took place over the next seven days. But wouldn’t it be nice if there weren’t any to report?
© 2023 David F. Ashton ~ East Portland News™
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