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P O L IC E NEWS
Portland Police B ureau Investi­
gators, in cooperation w ith Crim e
Stoppers, are asking for your help
in identifying and apprehending a
rape suspect
O n June 5, 1998. at approxi­
mately 10:30to 10:45 in the evening,
a w om an in her fifties w as getting
out o f her parked car, in a crow ded
grocery store parking lot at N E 69th
Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, when
she w as confronted by a subject
w ho threatened her w ith a knife.
T he victim w as forced to drive her
car to N E 84th A venue and NE
H alsey Street, w here she w as taken
behind a brick office building and
sexually assaulted. D uring the at­
tack, the suspect struck the victim
w ith his fists and cut her w ith his
knife, the suspect was last seen on
foot, fleeing w est across NE 84th
Avenue.
The suspect is described as a male,
white, 35 to 40 years o f age, 6 ’00"
tall, 155 to 160 pounds, w ith black
curly/w avy hair and a black beard.
At the tim e he w as w earing earrings,
possibly silver hoop type, in both
ears, blue jeans, and a w hite T-shirt,
the suspect also had w hat the victim
described as an “unusual” accent.
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at 503-823-H E L P .
Lewis Named Vice President at United Way
C arolyn L ew is has been nam ed
vice president o f H um an R esources
at U nited W ay o f the C olum bia-
W illamette.
Lew is has been w ith U nited W ay
for 16 years, w orking in the C am ­
paign D ivision for her first six years
before m oving to Human Resources.
S he’s been part o f the ex ecu tiv e
team for m ore than tree years. Prior
to U nited W ay, L ew is w orked in
human resources at First Interstate
Bank (now W ells Fargo an d C o m ­
pany).
Lewis currently is presid en t o f
E xecutive W om en International, a
M eng V ang a m ale A sian. 16 years
old. V ang is Laotian and recently
m oved to Portland from the south­
ern C alifornia area. He had been
staying w ith fam ily in SE Portland.
V an g ’s body w as taken to the M ult­
nom ah County m edical E xam iner’s
D eputies learned from w itnesses
at the scene that the victim was sw im ­
m ing andjum ping into the water along
w ith approxim ately 10 other family
m em bers w ho w ere at the park w ith a
larger group o f family. T he victim
either fell or jum ped into the river
from a large rock east oftheT routdale
bridge, w ent under w ater and cam e
up yelling for help. A tw enty year
old m ale cousin to the victim at­
tem pted to rescue him but w as being
pulled under and had to escape him ­
self. T he victim w ent under a second
tim e and did not resurface. The
victim w as described as being a weak
sw im m er by fam ily members.
T he victim is being identified as
In th e early m orn in g hours o f
A ugust 1 3 ,1 9 9 8 , uniform officers
o f N E P recinct arrested W alter
S ham su d -D in the IV , m ale, 19
years, for his involvem ent in the
abduction and sexual assault o f a
1 3 -y e a r o ld g irl.
A p p a re n tly
S ham sud-D in approached the v ic­
tim and a second 13-year old fe­
m ale, w ho w ere w alking hom e at
3:20 am , in the area o f N E 21st and
N E E m erson St. Sham sud-D in ap ­
parently ordered the victim into his
vehicle, a 1982 O ldsm obile at gun­
point. T he second fem ale fled im ­
m ediately called the police. R e­
s p o n d in g o f f ic e r s lo c a te d th e
su sp e ct’s vehicle at N E 17th and NE
E m erson St. w ith Sham sud-D in and
the victim still inside. Sham sud-
D in w as taken into custody, the
victim and the second 13-year old
apparently d id not know th e sus­
pect.
The investigation is being con­
ducted by the M ultnom ah County
Child A buse Team. Sham sud-D in
will be lodged at the Justice Center
Jail on the charges o f K idnap I and
M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty S h e r if f s
O ffic e R iv er P atrol d ep u ties w ere
called to th e scen e o f a m an o v e r­
b o ard on the C o lu m b ia river. At
ap p ro x im ately 4 :3 0 pm th e d e p u ­
tie s resp o n d ed to th e K elly P oint
park area w here a fam ily w as riding
in a rental boat. A t ap p ro x im ately
4:2 0 , w est o f th e park , on th e C o ­
lum bia, a m ale ad u lt o n b o ard d e ­
cid ed to ju m p fo rm th e b o at that
w as trav e lin g ap p ro x im ate ly 30
m ph. T h e m an d id not resurface.
T he R iv er patro l. C oast G u ard an d
th e P ortland Fire 3 u re a u conducted
a search o f a large area o f the riv er
w hich w as ham p ered by the lack o f
r e lia b le in fo rm a tio n a b o u t th e
m a n ’s en try point, th e search is
b ein g con d u cted v isu ally and w ith
rad ar in an area w here th e w ater is
appro x im ately 60 feet deep.
T he m ale victim is id en tified as
M att A. C ritch ett, a m ale caucasion
b o m in D ecem b er o f 1954. he was
on the b o at w ith his w ife, d au g h ter
and the d a u g h te r’s tw o y o u n g ch il­
dren. T h e fam ily and victim are
from B eav erto n , OR.
T h e re w e re lif e ja c k e ts on
b o ard , h o w ev e r M r. C ritc h e tt w as
n ot w ea rin g one. A lco h o l is b e ­
liev ed to be in v o lv ed a n d th e in c i­
d en t is still u n d e r in v e stig a tio n
by th e M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty R iver
p atro l.
office.
T he dive team from C lackam as
C ounty is m ade up o f divers from
Lake O sw ego, G ladstone, T ualatin,
and Estacada fire departm ents as
w ell as th e C lac k am a s C o u n ty
S h e riffs office. D ivers from the
M ultnom ah County S h e riff s office
also searched for Vang. T his is the
second drow ning in the sam e area in
the past three weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Abduction
And Sexual Assault
I was afraid that 1 might have failed
to make several important points last
week, but one response in particular
tells me otherwise. A reader says that
almost a decade ago in a talk before her
church group, I anticipated the ulti­
mate direction o f “gentrification.”
This was a tim e when African
Americans were using the term to de­
scribe the urban phenomena where
whites were ‘ moving back’ to the inner
city in increasing numbers, to streets
and villages o f another time and place,
o f another way oflife. The people were
just beginning to recover from the trash­
ing o f massive Urban Renewal pro­
grams, when economic and social hopes
were dashed again.
Suburbia was not ‘nirvana’ as much
o f the fleeing middle class was to dis­
cover, and the return swing o f the real
property pendulum had not nearly so
much to do with pressures created by
Metro and growth boundaries as it did
w ithabelated realization that the “Vil­
lage” and its social covenants exists for
us all, for all humans, all levels, how ­
ever disguised.
Last year I wrote a three-part series
on the first phase o f this phenomenon,
the outward flight. I chose for a title
that o f the angry book by James Howard
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ploys o f the realestate developers in
their efforts to deal with this kind o f
uncertainty in the prime market: “ Vil­
lage for Sale, a new dream for old-
fashioned community.” And, ofcourse,
there is the perennial shoppers mall for
mansions, "Street o f Dreams."
And I talked at length with a suc­
cessful white professional, a subscriber
o f the Portland Observer who under
ordinary circumstances would be a
prime prospect for the ‘plastic’ Vil­
lages or Streets. He frequently comes
by to peruse some rare books I'm not
about to let out o f the house - and he
returns the favor, expanding both our
reach.
He said, “my brother moved out to
suburbia ten years ago and now he’s
trying to get back as hard as he can-at
any price. It’snot just that th e ' hurry-up-
and-develop’ boys didn ’t do the kind, o f
job with transportation, water, sewers,
schools and other public services you’d
expect in a well-planned' community.
His families’ problem is a mind-set’."
“You said it very well in that De­
cember 17 article, American Philoso­
phy o f Land and Space'. Something
about a contradiction or dichotomy in
o u r’ psyche. Even the renowned ur­
ban analyst, Lew is Mumford had this.”
»To •
2000 Block SE 88th
o f th e resid e n ce . A t th is tim e.
D ete ctiv es h av e te n ta tiv e ly id e n ­
tifie d th e b io lo g ical m o th er o f th e
fe tu s, b u t are not rele asin g the
nam e o r o th er in fo rm atio n . N o
c h a rg e s h av e been filed at th is
Kunstter.'TheGeographyofNowhere:
The Rise and Decline o f America’s
Man-Made Landscape” (Touchstone
Simon & Schuster, 1994).
We are all o fu s too familiar with the
Urban Renewal phase o f the deliberate
destruction o f the economic and social
structure o f America’s principal inner
cities. No need to rehearse that painful
chapter except as it relates to that “re­
turn swing o f the pendulum o f white
flight.”
In my communications with former
students in other cities, that pendulum
does seem to be gaining momentum-not
just in Portland as some readers have
observed. Several weeks ago the Port­
land Observer featured a major article
w hichciteda visiting lecturercarryinga
m essage from the National Urban
League: “Hold on to your property, it is
more valuable than you think. Alert
yourelderly parentsand neighbors (sev­
eral decades late with the message?).”
And the pressure is not going to
relent, that is why my suggestion that
“nirvana” is not to be. Developers are
becoming aware that more and more o f
the white middle class is coming to
realize this-even those who did not end
up on undeclared flood plains or un­
stable slopes.
Last week I spoke o f the marketing
Rape 1.
Suspicious Death Investigation Update
O n S u n d ay , A u g u st 2, 1998,
D e te c tiv e s o f th e P o rtla n d P o lic e
B u reau w e re c a lle d to th e 2000
b lo ck o f S E 8 8 th A v e., re g a rd in g
th e re m a in s o f a fe tu s w h ic h w as
du g up b y a d o g in th e b ac k y ard
Carolyn Lewis
A "Street Of Dreams" And "Village For Sale" II
Bs P rof . M c K inley B i rt
At approxim ately 2:55 on A u­
g u st 11th, M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty
S h e r i f f s o f f ic e d e p u tie s an d
T routdale police w ere called to
G lenn O tto park, on the Sandy River,
in Troutdale. O fficers found that a
16 year old m ale had jum ped o r
slipped into the river and had not
resurfaced. D eputies called the
C lack am as C o u n ty in ter-agency
D ive R escue team and the M ult­
nom ah C ounty S h e riffs D iveT eam
to the scene, the dive team s w ere in
the w ater searching w ithin 45 m in­
utes o f being called and eventually
found the victim s body approxi­
m ately 30 yards from w here he had
entered into the river
board m em ber o f Fish Em ergency
Services, a trustee for N orthw est
A gencies Trust, and a m em ber o f
th e N o rth w est H um an R esource
M anagem ent A ssociation.
U nited W ay funds are disbursed
to agencies for specific program s,
such as those that strengthen fam i­
lies, help children and youth, en ­
hance senior independence and meet
em ergency needs. T he 78-year-old
local U nited W ay raises m oney and
d istrib u te s fu n d s in C lack am as,
M ultnom ah and W ashington co u n ­
ties in O regon and in C lark C ounty,
W ashington.
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