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February 28, 2018
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to stop the shooter, the sheriff’s office re-
vealed Thursday. That failure, plus delays
in security camera footage and records in-
dicating the suspect displayed behavioral
troubles for years added to what some of-
ficials describe as an “abject breakdown at
all levels.”
Village of Hope Rebuilds
Village of Hope, a self-managed houseless
community was re-created last week at its
original location, a city-owned parcel on
Northeast Airport Way. The village was
torn down by city officials earlier in Febru-
ary because of environmental concerns and
a lack of a permit.
An armed officer on campus at the Florida
high school where a former student shot
and killed 17 people Feb. 14 did nothing
Man to Plead Insanity
A Clackamas County man accused of de-
capitating his mother, taking her severed
head to a grocery store, and stabbing an
employee, plans on pleading insanity for
his defense. The attorney for Joshua Webb,
37, wrote to the court Friday saying his
client suffered from a “mental disease or
defect.”
Delay on Freeway Tolls
Robbery Suspects Detained
Shooting Response Faulted
lished was held up at gunpoint over the
past 11 days. Sergio Nathaniel Hill, 24 and
Ramone Metcalfe, 25, were taken into cus-
tody after a traffic stop.
Two men were arrested last week for an
armed robbery at Rounder’s Bar in north-
east Portland, the second time the estab-
An Oregon Department of Transportation
advisory committee was asked last week
to delay a decision on approving tolls as a
way to reduce congestion on I-5 and I-205
in Portland, pending further evaluation of
a 2017 study.
Hit-and-Run Law Change
Lawmakers last week gave final approval
to a bill that requires drivers in hit-and-
run crashes to come back to the scene of
the incident once they learned there was a
crash and notify authorities once they re-
alized the incident caused an injury. The
bill was spurred by the death of two young
girls who were struck by a vehicle while
playing in a leaf pile outside their Forest
Grove home.
Health Care Measure Fails
Oregon Senate Democrats reported Mon-
day that they are short the votes needed to
put a proposed state Constitutional Amend-
ment before voters that would make health
care a right. The bill had passed along party
lines in the House.
Chair Names New
Chief of Staff
Multnomah County Chair Deb-
orah Kafoury recently announced
that Kimberly Melton, a commu-
nications and policy advisor who
has worked on children, public
health and equity issues since
joining the chair’s office in 2015,
is her new chief of staff.
“Kim is the rarest combination
of analytical thinker and policy
wonk with a strong dose of heart,’’
Kafoury said.
A graduate of Stanford
University, Melton was an
award-winning journalist for The
Times-Picayune in New Orleans
and The Oregonian. She joined
the nonprofit Stand for Children
in 2011 where she spent two
years as communications and
policy director and another two
years as policy and community
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organizing director.
Melton replaces Nancy Ben-
nett, who left the county to be-
come the Department of Environ-
mental Quality’s new policy and
external affairs manager.
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