November 7, 2018
VETERAN’S DAY
Special Edition
Details Emerge in Officer-Involved Shooting
Video shows both
police, suspect
firing weapons
by D anny p eterson
t he p ortlanD o bserve
A Multnomah County Grand Jury has
determined that the use of deadly force
by police was justified in the death of
Patrick Kimmons, a 27-year-old black
man killed Sept. 30 in an officer-in-
volved shooting, downtown.
Multnomah County District Attor-
ney Rod Underhill said the grand jury
determined the police in question, Sgt.
Garry Britt and Officer Jeffrey Living-
ston, acted in self defense or defense of a
third person and would face no criminal
charges.
Patrick Kimmons
Newly released video from the police
investigation shows that the officers shot
Kimmons seconds after he fired his own
firearm five times against two people in
a fight and then starting running toward
police while still brandishing the gun.
Authorities said it happened around 3
a.m. as the two officers were providing
extra patrols at a parking lot at South-
west Third Avenue and Harvey Milk
Street that had been the location of prior
violent incidents. The officers fired 12
rounds at Kimmons nine of which struck
him, it was later determined by the state
medical examiner. He was turned away
from the police when he collapsed be-
tween some cars in the parking lot.
A gun was recovered near him and
several other firearms were recovered at
the scene.
Police said an internal administrative
investigation of the entire incident is un-
derway and is estimated to take about 10
weeks.
The grand jury’s decision was met
with a protest after it was announced last
Wednesday with supporters of Kimmons
demonstrating outside the Multnomah
County Courthouse. A street was tempo-
rarily blocked by the group and a motor-
ist was arrested for driving into one of
the protesters who escaped injury, au-
thorities said.
The driver, Mark A. Dickerson, 55,
was detained in jail and charged with
assault in the fourth degree, reckless en-
dangering and reckless driving.
Video from a police investigation shows the involvement of police officers in the
Sept. 30 shooting death of Patrick Kimmons, a 27-year-old black man. The video
from a downtown parking lot also shows Kimmons in a fight and firing his gun on
two other people in the seconds before being confronted by police.
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