Week #224 Shooting Report | INCLUDES TWO INVESTIGATION VIDEOS | INCLUDES 14 PHOTOS | In addition to a teenager dead in an outer East Portland shooting, a Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood home invasion featured shotgun blasts; and, a man is seriously wounded in Gateway District shooting …
Portland Police Bureau officers continue to be dispatched to shooting-related incidents in our outer East Portland neighborhoods.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
There’s yet no relief from shooting incidents in outer East Portland this week. It’s been keeping Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers and detectives busy.
This week’s report documents three shooting incidents – one of them fatal.
September 28
Teenager dies in Lents shooting
Officers tape off a large portion of the Scott Mountain by the Brook Apartments common area, after a shooting fells a teenager.
Except for those who live there, most people don’t know of the massive residential development – apartment complexes, condo developments, and single family homes – just east of the I-205 freeway and 92nd Avenue, along the steep and winding SE Aspen Summit Drive.
After shots were heard at the Scott Mountain by the Brook Apartments, at 7828 SE Aspen Summit Drive early on Saturday morning, September 28, a young man was found lifeless on the ground.
Officers and detectives flock into the area as the investigation gets underway.
PPB East Precinct officers, who were dispatched at 12:27 a.m., found an adult male victim deceased in a common area outside of the apartments – and called in the PPB Homicide Unit detectives. While no public roadways were closed, some areas of the apartment complex parking lot were inaccessible to allow the investigation to continue until late that morning.
Dead of ‘homicide by gunshot wound’ is Texas native Niyjiel Troishon Brown. Family-provided photo
On September 29, Portland Police revealed that it was 19-year-old Niyjiel Troishon Brown – he was from Texas, officials say – who was killed this time. The Medical Examiner confirmed that he died of “homicide by gunshot wound”.
It’s still an active investigation, and detectives are seeking tips and additional information; no details of the suspect have yet been revealed.
If you have information about this case, and haven’t already spoken with police, please contact Detective Steve Gandy at Stephen.Gandy@police.portlandoregon.gov 503-823-0449, or Detective Jeff Pontius at Jeffery.Pontius@police.portlandoregon.gov 503-823-0433, and make reference to Case No. 24-248378.
November 2
Shotgun blasts rock Powellhurst-Gilbert in home invasion
After a shotgun is discharged inside a house, a half-dozen police officers respond to the incident.
With “Shots Fired” cases so commonplace these days, only a couple of PPB officers are typically sent to investigate such reports. In many cases, they find little or no “evidence of gunfire” in the location – it may not have been actual shots that have been heard — and they may close out the incident within a few minutes of arrival.
Not so on Wednesday evening October 2nd!
PPB East Precinct officers were sent at 10:36 p.m. to look into the report of gunshots at a residence in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood, near SE 130th Avenue and Cora Street.
Officers are looking through and around where boards were broken out of this yard’s fence, and they start stringing ‘police tape’ near the opening.
When we arrived, officers were examining boards broken out of the wooden fence of a yard facing SE 130th Avenue at Cora Street, across from an entrance to Gilbert Park.
An officer was pulling yellow “police tape” along the fence, and continued across the front of the property and driveway – making this more than a typical “Shots Fired” call.
Officers continue reeling out more crime scene tape as this investigation continues.
“Officers who responded to this call learned from an occupant that a man was in the bathroom in this home, when he heard his front door being kicked in,” informed PPB Public Information Manager Mike Benner. “The individual opened the bathroom door to see four suspects in his house – one with a shotgun – and he slammed shut the bathroom door and heard two shots.”
Watch as police investigate this shooting scene:
The suspects may have also dispensed “pepper spray” or tear gas into the residence before fleeing, Benner added.
“While no arrests have been made, fortunately nobody was hurt,” Benner reported. “It appears this incident involves people known to each other.”
Into the night, the latest shooting investigation continues.
If you have information about this shooting, send it by email crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov – and refer to the Case No. 24-253011.
October 4
Man seriously wounded in Gateway District shooting
In the Hazelwood neighborhood, a shooting in this parking lot seriously wounds a man, and brings police to investigate.
After what witnesses believed to be a low-speed crash involving a U-Haul truck and a black VW Jetta sedan on Thursday evening, October 4, shots followed – in the Gateway Shopping Center parking lot, at NE 102nd Avenue and Halsey Street, between the Subway and Carl’s Jr. restaurants; just north of the Wing Stop store.
See what took place next, as the investigation into this shooting began:
At 8:17 p.m., the Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications (BOEC) showed that PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched to this incident at a different location – NE 102nd Avenue and Wasco Street. However, officers quickly were redirected to the correct location.
Witnesses say that, somehow this damaged VW sedan and a U-Haul truck were involved in this shooting.
Indeed, a U-Haul box truck was parked facing north in the center of the lot. The VW was facing east; the passenger’s side looked freshly damaged.
Next to the passenger’s side of the U-Haul truck there was, on the ground, an open Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) – a pouch containing advanced first aid lifesaving supplies.
Officers continue looking for evidence in the area of this shooting.
These yellow evidence markers show where some of the many spent bullet shells landed.
Soon, as many as 20 officers, including members of the PPB’s Enhanced Community Safety Team, had cordoned off the scene. A large number of bystanders, perhaps some of them witnesses, watched from under the overhang of the Wing Stop store.
“There was a shooting in that parking lot, where one adult male was seriously injured,” confirmed PPB Public Information Officer Sergeant Kevin Allen. “Officers provided trauma first aid before then emergency medical responders arrived; and, he was transported to a local hospital by ambulance.”
Upon finding the wounded man, officers used this IFAK first aid kit while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
No arrests were made at the scene, and the incident remains under investigation.
Into the night, this shooting investigation continues.
Should you be able to provide information about this shooting, and haven’t yet spoken with investigators, send it by email to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov – and refer to Case No. 24-253786.
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