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Oregon’s First Black
Member of Congress
Continued from Front significantly redrawn following
Oregon,” Bynum said at a press
conference last Friday. “But it
took all of us working together
to flip this seat, and we deliv-
ered a win for Oregon. We be-
lieved in a vision and we didn’t
take our feet off the gas until we
accomplished our goals.”
Chavez-DeRemer conceded
the race Thursday, the day that
The Associated Press declared
Bynum the winner.
“I’m deeply grateful for the
opportunity I had to serve as Or-
egonians’ voice in Congress,”
Chavez-DeRemer said in a state-
ment posted on her social media.
“Although this isn’t the outcome
we had hoped for, I’m proud of
what we accomplished together.”
The contest was seen as a GOP
toss up by the Cook Political Re-
port, meaning either party had a
good chance of winning. Bynum
had previously defeated Chavez-
DeRemer when they faced off in
state legislative elections.
Chavez-DeRemer
narrow-
ly won the seat in 2022, which
was the first election held in the
district after its boundaries were
the 2020 census.
The district now encompass-
es disparate regions spanning
metro Portland and its wealthy
and working-class suburbs, as
well as rural agricultural and
mountain communities and the
fast-growing central Oregon
city of Bend on the other side of
the Cascade Range. Registered
Democratic voters outnumber
Republicans by about 25,000 in
the district, but unaffiliated vot-
ers represent the largest constit-
uency.
A small part of the district is
in Multnomah County, where a
ballot box just outside the coun-
ty elections office in Portland
was set on fire by an incendiary
device about a week before the
election, damaging three ballots.
Authorities said that enough ma-
terial from the incendiary device
was recovered to show that the
Portland fire was also connect-
ed to two other ballot drop box
fires in neighboring Vancouver,
Washington, one of which oc-
curred on the same day as the
Portland fire and damaged hun-
dreds of ballots.
Investigators
Asking
Anyone with
Information to
Come Forward
On Saturday, November 9,
2024 at 2:06 a.m., Portland Police
Officers assigned to East Precinct
responded to a report of a shoot-
ing inside an apartment in the 00
block of Northeast 146th Avenue.
When officers arrived they locat-
ed an adult female deceased at
the scene. An injured male was
transported to the hospital with
non-life threatening injuries. Fol-
lowing the shooting call, Michael
J. English, 33, of Portland, was
undergoing treatment at Oregon
Health and Science University
Hospital for injuries connected to
the shooting on Southeast 146th
Avenue. At about 9:45 a.m., he
Portrait of Angel Geib
was permitted to change clothes
in private, but took advantage
of the situation and fled out of
the room. PPB launched an im-
mediate search, and brought in
resources including Air Support
Unit, the drone unit, and K9 unit.
OHSU Police and VA Hospi-
tal Police also partnered on the
search to locate English. Shortly
before 11:00 a.m., VA Police lo-
cated and arrested English, and
he was transferred back to PPB
officers. He was then interviewed
by Homicide Detectives.
English was booked into the
Multnomah County Detention
Center on the Manslaughter in the
First Degree and Felon in Posses-
sion of a Firearm. The woman
killed in a shooting in the Ha-
zelwood Neighborhood has been
identified as 40-year-old Angel
Geib. Family has been notified
of her death. They are requesting
privacy at this time, but they did
provide the attached photo for
public release.
The Medical Examiner deter-
mined Geib died of homicide by
gunshot wound. Anyone with
information, who has not spoken
with investigators, is asked to
contact Detective Ryan Foote at
ryan.foote@police.portlandore-
gon.gov, (503) 823-0781 or De-
tective Matt Brown at matthew.
brown@police.portlandoregon.
gov (503) 823-0859 and refer-
ence case number 24-287452.
25K Reward Offered in
Ballot Box Fire Case
FBI Seeks Tips
to Identify
Suspect
The FBI’s Seattle Field Of-
fice is offering a reward of up to
$25,000 for information leading
to the identification, arrest, and
conviction of the person respon-
sible setting incendiary fires at
two ballot boxes in Vancouver,
Washington, and one in Port-
land, Oregon.
On October 8, 2024, between
3:30 and 4:00 a.m., an unknown
individual placed an improvised
incendiary device on a ballot drop
box in Vancouver, Washington.
Subsequently, on October 28,
2024, between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m.,
improvised incendiary devices
were placed on ballot drop boxes
in Vancouver, Washington, and
Portland, Oregon.
A surveillance camera cap-
tured images of an early 2003
to 2004 Volvo S-60 sedan, dark
in color, with dark wheels and a
light-colored interior, driven by
the suspect believed to responsi-
A damaged ballot drop box is displayed during a news conference
at the Multnomah County Elections Division office, Oct. 28, 2024,
in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
ble for these crimes. The vehicle
does not have a Volvo logo on
the front grill. At the time of the
October 28, 2024, incidents, the
vehicle also displayed a fraud-
ulent temporary Washington li-
cense plate on the rear and no
front license plate. The plate,
which is not associated with
a Volvo, may no longer be on
the vehicle.
The driver of the vehicle is de-
scribed as a White male, approx-
imately 30 to 40 years old with
thinning hair. It is believed that he
may have some experience with
metal work and welding.
Anyone with information is
asked to call your nearest FBI of-
fice, provide information online at
tips.fbi.gov, or call 1-800-CALL-
FBI (1-800-225-5324).