July 7, 2021
The
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Bullets
Fly;
Homes
Hit
INSIDE
Week in Review
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S PORTS
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M ETRO
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Portland Police mark where up to 80 bullets and bullet fragments landed during a Saturday night
shooting on Northeast Seventh and Wygant Street, near King Elementary School.
Shooting
scene finds 80
cartridge casings
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
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O PINION
C LASSIFIED /B IDS
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Portland Police officers
assigned to North Precinct
responded to a massive shots
fired call on Northeast 7th
Avenue and Wygant Saturday
night, July 3. The firepower
littered the pavement with
bullets and struck at least
four homes in the vicinity of
King Elementary School.
When officers arrived
they contacted witnesses and
found evidence of a shooting,
including over 80 cartridge
casings. Four apartments had
been hit by gunfire, includ-
ing occupied homes, police
said. At least four vehicles
were also hit by bullets.
Police did not find anyone
who had been wounded. The
suspects fled prior to police
arriving.
Officials said the Portland
Police Enhanced Communi-
ty Safety Team (ECST) re-
sponded to investigate.
To date there have been
approximately 579 shoot-
ing incidents in the City of
Portland in 2021, more than
twice the number during the
same time in 2020.
If anyone has information
about this latest case, they
are encouraged to reference
case 21-181233 and e-mail
crimetips@portlandoregon.
gov .
Anonymous tips can be
sent through Crime Stoppers.
Crime Stoppers of Oregon
offers cash rewards of up to
$2,500 cash for information,
reported to Crime Stoppers,
that leads to an arrest in any
unsolved felony crime and
tipsters can remain anony-
mous.
Heat Deaths Rise to 67
County to study
emergency response
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The Multnomah County Medical Examin-
er reported Monday that the number of deaths
from last week’s record-breaking heat wave
had risen to 64. The deaths were identified be-
tween June 27 and July 3, which included three
straight days of record-breaking temperatures
of 108, 112 and 116 in Portland.
The preliminary snapshot shows the people
who died ranged in age from 44 to 97, with an
average age of 68. The majority were white.
Many were found in their homes, with no air
conditioning or fans, official said. Statewide, a
total of 107 Oregonians suffered deaths related
to the heat wave, officials said.
Of the deaths in Multnomah County, 30 were
formally ruled hyperthermia or death by exces-
sive heat. The remaining cases are suspected
hyperthermia.
Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury
said the county will be conducting a much deep-
er analysis of what happened during the historic
heat wave and how to plan for the future.
The county mounted what it called an all-
hands-on-deck public health response to the
heat crisis.
Deborah Kafoury
Three 24-hour cooling centers were opened
and officials said they contacted tens of thou-
sands of vulnerable elders, people with disabili-
ties and pregnant women, distributing hundreds
of fans and sending more than 60 outreach
teams into the field to reach people experienc-
ing homelessness.
The additional investigation into “this
mass casualty event is needed to bring what
is still a very blurry picture into sharp focus,”
officials said.