SHOOTING REPORT | INCLUDES TWO INVESTIGATION VIDEOS | 11 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS | Discover what has been revealed about the outer East Portland shootings – one on Monday night, and the other on Wednesday morning – that both resulted in injuries, and one arrest …
This week, two shootings bring Portland Police Bureau officers and investigators to East Portland locations, starting off with this one, on the border of the Hazelwood and Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhoods.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
For years, with multiple shootings every seven days, East Portland News assembled those stories in “Weekly Shooting Reports”. Fortunately, thanks to the good efforts of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), the number of shootings and homicides has dramatically decreased in our outer East Portland neighborhoods.
However, this week was different. There were two shooting incidents – on February 16, and again on February 18 – which we’re combining into this week’s SHOOTING REPORT.
February 16
Man wounded in drive-by shooting on SE Division Street
Eastbound Division Street is closed off at 130th Avenue, as a car-to-car shooting investigation takes place.
In the chilly evening of February 16, as a light mist fell along the border of the Hazelwood and Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhoods, gunshots rang out in a car-to-car shooting in the eastbound lanes of SE Division Street near 131st Avenue.
PPB East Precinct officers who were dispatched at 6:35 p.m. found “evidence of gunfire” – specifically, spent bullet-shell casings – on the high concrete median, and in the traffic lanes.
Watch, as officers look for evidence in this shooting incident on the Powellhurst-Gilbert side of SE Division Street:
After officers shut down eastbound Division Street to conduct an investigation, traffic backed up west to SE 122nd Avenue.
Other officers located a small sedan with Washington plates in the CI Auctions parking lot on westbound SE Division Street at 133rd Avenue.
Officers mark the location of one of the spent bullet shell casings, found on the concrete median, with an evidence marker.
A neighbor told East Portland News that she heard three gunshots. Reportedly, the other vehicle, a black SUV, took off eastbound on Division Street and disappeared into the night.
Members of the PPB’s Enhanced Community Safety Team (ECST) joined the district officers in the investigation.
“Officers did respond to a shooting in the area of SE 131st Avenue and Division that evening, and at that time,” confirmed PPB Public Information Manager Mike Benner.
Two blocks east along SE Division Street, on the west side out the road, other officers find a car – and a shooting victim.
“Upon investigation, officers located casings and evidence of a shooting involving people in two different vehicles,” Benner continued. “A male shooting victim was transported to a local hospital by ambulance, with a non-life-threatening injury.
After medically stabilizing the shooting victim, an ambulance takes him to the hospital.
“No arrests were made,” Benner concluded; but he added that the case remains under investigation. If you have information about this shooting, and have not yet spoken with police, send it in an email to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, and reference Case No. 26-47205.
February 18
Lents resident arrested for shooting a butt and bottle scavenger near his house
After a shooting in the Lents neighborhood, officers, detectives, and investigators gather outside a house, awaiting the arrival of a signed search warrant to allow them to go in.
This incident started when motorists saw an obviously-wounded man near the SE Woodstock Street couplet in Lents Town Center, just east of the I-205 Freeway off-ramp. Calls came in to 9-1-1 on Wednesday morning, February 18.
PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched at 11:23 a.m. to conduct an “area check” around that area, frequented by homeless campers.
Watch as officers and detectives gather to investigate this shooting:
Soon, 22 officers had gathered; vehicles were parked at the north turn-around of SE 96th Avenue which runs in front of houses, before the street dead-ends just south of SE Woodstock Boulevard.
Looking south on SE 96th Avenue from Woodstock Boulevard, many police vehicles are stationed.
A neighbor told East Portland News, “I heard that someone living in a house up near the end of the street shot at a trespasser who was scavenging for ‘cig butts’ and bottles and cans.”
“Officers found the person, and determined that the victim, an adult male, had been shot,” PPB Public Information Officer Sergeant Kevin Allen later confirmed to East Portland News. “He was transported to the hospital by ambulance – underwent surgery, and was stabilized – his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.”
Officers look for evidence along SE 96th Avenue.
We watched, as officers gathered information and learned the shooting likely happened outside a house in the 6300 block of SE 96th Avenue. They surrounded the house and learned that two people were inside.
After calling in additional officers, a drone unit, and the police dog team, they opened communications with the people in the home and asked them to come out. “Both men were cooperative, and were detained by police pending an investigation,” Sergeant Allen reported.
These officers (and a detective) discuss a plan of action, after the signed search warrant arrives.
The PPB’s ECST officers, and a detective, came to assist with the investigation. One of the men who emerged from the house was released without charges.
An ECST detective applied for, and a judge signed, a search warrant for the house. Once inside the residence, ECST officers seized a handgun, rifle, and shotgun. “The handgun is believed to be the weapon used in the shooting,” said Sergeant Allen. It was a black semiautomatic handgun, with slide locked back, and optic mounted to the rear slide.
With the patrol car back door open, this officer checks on the suspect in police custody.
This is the Smith & Wesson “M&P” style semiautomatic pistol ECST that officers seized.
“The investigation suggests that the victim was looking for cans and cigarette butts alongside the home when the two residents confronted him,” confirmed Sergeant Allen. “One of the residents, 31-year-old Rian P. Jeans, shot the victim.”
After his arrest, Jeans was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) that evening at 7:15 p.m. on charges of Assault in the First Degree and Unlawful Use of a Weapon.
However, at his arraignment, Jeans learned that, in addition to three Felony Assault charges, he’d also be facing a charge of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, for which he’s currently being lodged in the MCDC in lieu of $50,000.
If you have information about this incident and have not already talked to police, please e-mail crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov; Attn: ECST and reference Case No. 26-48898.
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