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‘City of Roses’
Volume XLV
Number 25
www.portlandobserver.com
Wednesday • June 22, 2016
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Rinita Lowe, 23, charged with murder
Photo by M ark W ashington /t he P ortland o bserver
A dancer is killed during a confrontation with a female acquaintance at the Skinn strip club at Northeast 60th Avenue
Shantina Turner , 29, died of homicidal violence
and Prescott. The third death in ive years has raised community concerns to close the establishment.
Third Death at Strip Club
Skinn’s stabbing revives community concerns
by C ervante P oPe
t he P ortland o bserver
A dancer was killed in homicidal vio-
lence at a northeast Portland strip club last
week, reviving community concerns in the
Cully Neighborhood over an establishment
that has experienced three murders in the
last ive years.
Friends at the scene of the June 15 fa-
tality reported that Shantina Turner, 29,
was stabbed in the neck by Rinita Linelle
Lowe, 23, during an argument while hav-
ing a drink outside the club around 11:30
p.m. Medical personnel responded but
were unable to save Turner and she died
at the scene.
Police were able to immediately arrest
Lowe, as she sought refuge in a neigh-
boring 7-Eleven, where two police ofi-
cers were inside getting coffee. She was
charged with murder and unlawful use of
a weapon.
Crime scenes aren’t that unusual at
Skinn’s as both staff and locals recall the
two other murders at the establishment.
Anton Hill, a father of ive children at
the time, was shot and killed outside the
establishment back in 2013. Another man,
Deon Moisan was shot ive times in the
chest outside the club back in 2011 when
it was under the business name JD’s Bar
& Grill. Reports at the time claim he was
celebrating his 24th birthday and that his
death was gang related.
Former Skinn bouncer Jason Gleason
remembers both of these incidents, believ-
ing it’s due to a lack of experienced secu-
rity personnel.
“Even if you have the most experienced
bouncer in that place, something’s gonna
happen. They’re gonna get overwhelmed,”
Gleason told KATU.
A childhood friend to the latest victim,
Candice Edwards, agrees with Gleason,
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