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November 21, 2018
Two Killed near Portland Bridges Murder Outside Strip Club
Portland police arrested James
J. Barquet,
26,
Tues-
day morning
on
murder
charges
in
connection
with
two
deaths hours
earlier where
a woman was
found dead
beneath the Morison Bridge
around 9 p.m. and a man was
shot and killed on the Burnside
Bridge about 4 hours later. It
appears that the suspect didn’t
know the victims and the victims
didn’t know each other, accord-
ing to officials.
The
Week
in
Review
A man was killed in a shooting
early Thursday morning outside
a strip club at Southeast 159th
and Stark Street. Portland police
said they responded to reports of
gunfire about 2 a.m. and found the
victim, identified as Edward L. Alberta Street. Susan Dowiasz
Taylor Jr., 26, on the sidewalk.
accused the man of trespassing
because of where he had parked
his car, police said. During the ar-
gument, she fired a handgun. The
man was not hurt.
Curbs on Protests Rejected
The Portland City Council voted
against Mayor Ted Wheeler’s pro-
Gun Fired Over Parking
posed ordinance last week intend-
A 71-year-old woman was arrest- ed to stop violence during politi-
ed last week after police say she cal protests. Commissioner Nick
fired a gun at a man outside her Fish cast the deciding vote, prais-
home near Northeast 82nd and
ter has filed a $2.7 million lawsuit
against Multnomah County claim-
ing she was sexually assaulted by
a 15-year-old inmate in his jail
cell. According to the lawsuit, the
county didn’t warn the employee
that the teenager was in custo-
Fatal Crash Blamed on Driver dy because he had been accused
A homeless man collecting bot- of sexually assaulting a pregnant
tles and cans was killed Thurs- teacher at his Troutdale school.
day night after the driver of a car
on North Willamette Boulevard Man Burned by Gas Siphoning
crashed into multiple unoccupied A man trying to siphon gas from
parked vehicles and the male pe- a U-Haul caught on fire and then
destrian. Police said the driver fled from the fiery scene beneath
was speeding and under the influ- the Morrison Bridge in southeast
ence of alcohol. The victim was Portland just before 7 a.m. Mon-
identified as Jason Barns, 32.
day, surveillance video shows.
Firefighters extinguished flames
Juvenile Jailer Sues County
that had engulfed a van and a
A female employee at the Donald U-Haul box truck.
E. Long Juvenile Detention Cen-
ing Wheeler’s effort to tackle the
problem but citing constitutional
concerns and expressing hope that
opponents of the ordinance would
join the city to pursue alternative
efforts to combat violence.
Rose Festival Leader Named
Family’s
participation goes
back decades
Teri Bowles-Atherton has been
elected president of the Portland
Rose Festival Foundation.
The director of Physician De-
velopment and Provider Com-
pensation for Providence Medical
Group first volunteered for the or-
ganization 10 years ago when she
signed up to be wardrobe coordi-
nator and chaperone for the Rose
Festival Court. In 2009 she was
invited to join the board.
Bowles-Atherton is a sec-
ond-generation Oregonian and
proud daughter of Gail Black-
Bowles and Carl Bowles. She
was born at Emanuel Hospital and
raised in northeast Portland where
she attended Alameda Elementary
School, Beaumont Middle School
and later St. Mary’s Academy.
She completed her Bachelor of
Science degree at Vanderbilt Uni-
versity and returned to Portland
where she would meet and marry
Jermaine Atherton and raise their
daughter Jaiden.
Like many Portlanders, her
family has a history with the Rose
Festival, dating back to the 1960s
when her uncle, “Jimmy Bang-
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“I was seven years old and giv-
en my first volunteer position with
my parents, brother, family and
friends, in a huge warehouse at
4:30 a.m. I was helping to put the
finishing touches on my uncle’s
float. It wasn’t play; it was work,”
Bowles-Atherton said, “Even at
that age I knew that I was contrib-
uting to something grand; some-
thing bigger than I could even
imagine at the time.”
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