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Gunfire on Saturday night at a Portland, Ore., park where people had reportedly assembled to protest the officer-involved shooting of Amir Locke has allegedly claimed the life of one woman and wounded five others.
The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. at Normandale Park in the northeast part of the crime-ridden city around the time the march was set to begin. “The shooting took place near a park in Portland that has been the staging ground for a number of protests against police killings in recent years,” the New York Times recalled.
According to the Portland Police Bureau, “When officers arrived they located a female victim who was deceased. Additional shooting victims, two men and three women, were transported to area hospitals and their status is unknown at this time…Additional information will be released at the direction of investigators.”
Further details are still sketchy at this time. Homicide detectives, who shut down the park area, have also requested the public’s help in the probe.
Two suspects are reportedly in custody, and the investigation is ongoing. The Oregon State Medical Examiner is expected to conduct an autopsy to pinpoint the cause of death and identify the victim.
As part of a longer thread, tireless independent journalist Andy Ngo posted this video clip to Twitter:
Last night there was a mass shooting in Portland at Normandale Park where armed #antifa & far-left militants were gathering for a direct action. One female is deceased & there are five others injured. #Antifa are claiming shooting was politically motivated pic.twitter.com/68n38GAsPV
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) February 20, 2022
“I was sitting in the room talking to my wife, and all of a sudden you hear repeated gunshots,” a resident of the area told the Times.
Portland FM station KXL separately claimed that “Reports are that a neighbor in the area confronted the group about blocking traffic when the gunshots were exchanged.”
On February 2, Locke, 22, was shot and killed by police in Minneapolis, the same city where an ex-officer was convicted of the murder of George Floyd, while cops were attempting to execute a pre-dawn, no-knock search warrant.
Locke was not named on the warrant. Body-cam footage allegedly shows that Locke, a legal gun owner, had a weapon in his hand but also appears to show that Locke was not pointing it at what he likely perceived to be intruders and his finger was not on the trigger.
Minneapolis has now put on hold any no-knock warrants.
Fox 12 Oregon reporter Connor McCarthy posted this footage from the Portland crime scene:
#BREAKING: On scene of a shooting on NE 55th and Hassalo. Scanner traffic says multiple people have been shot. One possible fatality. When I arrived I saw at least two victims being transported to the hospital. Waiting for more information from @PortlandPolice. @fox12oregon pic.twitter.com/ijDegLtnHW
— Connor McCarthy (@conr_mccarthy) February 20, 2022
Earlier this week, Portland CBS affiliate KOIN indicated that “Gun violence continues to plague Portland after it escalated to record highs in 2021,” which included six shootings between Thursday night and Friday morning. “Authorities recently told KOIN 6 News the first month of 2022 outpaced January 2021, already setting a dark precedent for the year.”
Last year, a record-setting 90 murders occurred in the Democrat-controlled city that sought to partly defund the police before reality caused officials to reverse course.
Knife-wielding man chases down guy in broad daylight; Portland is an asylum without locks https://t.co/PVGonFbuUc pic.twitter.com/W6GiJrSeVe
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) May 17, 2021
Watch a report on the Normandale Park incident aired by KOIN:
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Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”
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