November 28, 2018
The
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INSIDE
Week in Review
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A police booking photo of Justin C. Venable (left) after his arrest Monday for menacing
others with a metal rod and another picture shows him as a suspect in one of the
attacks.
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Man accused of
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A man was arrested Monday after he alleged-
ly used a metal rod to poke strangers in south-
east Portland over the weekend.
Justin C. Venable, 37, is being held in Mult-
nomah County Detention Center on harassment
charges after being located Monday evening by
Portland police near Southeast 35th and Main
Street. A metal rod that was in his possession
was confiscated, police said.
It’s unclear what motive was behind the
pokings. Venable’s mother and brother told
KOIN-TV he’s schizophrenic and has been off
his medications for the last two years, but has
never been violent before.
Earlier Monday police released a photo of
the suspect, rod-in-hand, taken by one of his
alleged victims. A call later that evening by
someone who spotted Venable led to police
finding and apprehending him, authorities said.
Four poking incidents were reported to have
occurred from Saturday through Monday at
various times, by multiple people, all around
Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. None of the
victims were seriously injured.
Man Dies after Campus Police Struggle
Authorities blame
death on unidentified
medical condition
O PINION
C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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Authorities are investigating the death of
a man who was restrained by both Portland
State University and city of Portland police
on Thanksgiving Day and died in the hospital
shortly later.
Authorities said Richard A. Barry, 52, got
into a struggle with PSU police who were re-
sponding to a report of a man yelling and run-
ning in the streets. In total, six officers became
involved, two from the Portland Police Bureau
and four from PSU as they tried to restrain
Barry, officials said. He later died after being
transported to the hospital from “an unidenti-
fied medical condition,” police said.
It was the second officer-involved death in-
volving PSU campus police this year, the first
being the officer involved shooting death of Ja-
son Washington outside the Cheerful Tortoise
near the campus in June.
All the officers in this latest case were placed
on administrative leave pending investigations.
The official cause of Barry’s death will get re-
leased when the reviews are completed, police
said.
Officials said Portland Police will conduct an
internal investigation of the incident, with co-
operation from PSU, and the Multnomah Coun-
ty District Attorney will oversee the case.