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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, June 28, 2016 Portland police chief retires amid inquiry into shooting himself in a mishap. A deputy who interviewed O’Dea at the scene wrote in a report that he smelled of alcohol. O’Dea denied being intoxicated, and his attorney, Derek Ashton, reiterated that contention in a statement to the media on Sunday. “Larry O’Dea did not have alcohol on his breath nor was he impaired or intoxicated,” Ashton said. “He did not purposely point his gun at any person and did not know- ingly discharge a irearm in the direction of his lifelong friend.” O’Dea admitted to Hales a few days after the incident that he had ired the shot. Harney County authorities didn’t learn the truth until weeks later, when the victim inally spoke with an investi- gator. After Sheriff Dave Ward learned that O’Dea was a law enforcement oficer, he turned the investigation over to state police. By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — Port- land’s police chief, Larry O’Dea, resigned Monday amid criminal and internal investigations into whether he was forthright after acci- dentally shooting his friend during a camping trip on the other side of the state. Mayor Charlie Hales announced the move at a news conference that had to be shifted to his ofice because of hecklers. Hales said he’s been disappointed by the “trial by media” and asked everyone to await the outcome of the twin investigations before passing judgment. “If the investigations determine that some of what has been printed about Chief O’Dea’s conduct turns out to be not true, I would ask you to be as energetic in clearing his name as you have been in smearing him,” Hales said. Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announces the antici- pated shakeup in the top command staff of the Police Bureau, replacing retiring Chief Larry O’Dea as he faces criminal investigation for an off-duty shooting, Mon- day in Portland. Immediately following the news con- ference, Capt. Mike Marshman, at left, was sworn in as the new chief of the Portland Police Bureau. O’Dea, 54, had been chief for little more than a year when he went on the April trip to sparsely populated Harney County in southeast Oregon. He shot his friend, Robert Dempsey, in the lower back with a .22 caliber rile. The friend was taken to a Boise hospital, but was not seriously hurt. O’Dea didn’t identify himself as Portland’s police chief when deputies spoke with him, and he said it appeared Dempsey shot Three die in shooting; suspect arrested the suspect as he drove through the scenic Colombia Gorge 80 miles away and took him into custody without incident, Oregon State Police Capt. Bill Fugate told The Associated Press. The arrest happened at milepost 71 on Interstate 84, Fugate said, which puts the location just outside the town of Mosier, where a train carrying oil derailed on June 3, starting a large ire and forcing evacuations. Lt. Chris Baldridge of the Marion County Sheriff’s Ofice said the deputies had found two dead men, a wounded man and a wounded woman, and later issued a statement that said “tragically the female has died at the hospital and the male remains in critical condition.” The sheriff’s ofice said it is for the time being withholding informa- tion on the victims and the shooter. The Marion County Sheriff’s Ofice thanked the Oregon State Police, Woodburn Police Depart- ment and Clackamas County Sher- iff’s Ofice for assisting. ——— Follow Andrew Selsky on Twitter @andrewselsky Associated Press BEND — A lone gunman killed two men and a woman and critically wounded another man on a farm Monday in northwest Oregon, then led before he was captured on an interstate highway in the Columbia River Gorge, law enforcement oficials said. Marion County sheriff’s deputies were called to the farm in a bucolic setting in the Willamette Valley. There, they found a chilling scene: Two men were already dead, and a man and a woman were gravely injured. The woman later died in a hospital. Within a short while, law enforcement locked to the farm compound consisting of a half- dozen buildings wedged in among plowed ields and shaded by trees. The compound is just east of the town of Woodburn. The deputies obtained descrip- tions of the suspect and the vehicle he led in, and broadcast the infor- mation to all local police agencies. About 2½ hours later, Oregon State Police, assisted by the Hood River County Sheriff’s Ofice, stopped BRIEFLY PORTLAND (AP) — Police in Portland, Oregon, say a 33-year-old woman returning home with her two young children shot and killed an intruder in one of her children’s bedrooms. Police say the woman cooper- ated with investigators after the Saturday evening shooting and wasn’t arrested. The woman and her 5- and 10-year-old children weren’t hurt. A neighbor told Portland TV station KOIN-TV that the home had been vacant for some time before the family moved in and that squatters were periodically in the home. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Hot with blazing sunshine Hot with scorching sunshine 95° 61° 96° 63° THURSDAY FRIDAY REGIONAL CITIES Very warm with plenty of sun Partly sunny Partly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 92° 62° 89° 63° 83° 59° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 99° 64° 100° 66° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 93° 83° 109° (2015) 57° 55° 42° (1934) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.93" 1.01" 6.52" 5.00" 7.56" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records HIGH LOW 95° 83° 108° (2015) 54° 55° 41° (2012) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.41" 0.55" 4.64" 3.14" 5.69" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First July 4 July 11 94° 65° 88° 62° Seattle 81/59 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 97° 65° Full 5:08 a.m. 8:49 p.m. 1:12 a.m. 2:16 p.m. Last July 19 July 26 Today SATURDAY Spokane Wenatchee 91/63 95/67 Tacoma Moses 81/54 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 97/63 90/55 69/54 81/52 98/63 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 79/55 96/65 Lewiston 100/63 Astoria 96/64 68/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 84/58 Pendleton 88/58 The Dalles 99/64 95/61 94/64 La Grande Salem 90/56 86/55 Albany Corvallis 86/52 86/52 John Day 93/55 Ontario Eugene Bend 99/67 86/51 87/54 Caldwell Burns 98/62 91/53 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Hi 68 89 87 69 91 88 86 92 99 93 90 90 89 93 64 67 99 100 95 84 91 86 91 87 82 96 98 Lo 55 52 54 55 53 58 51 60 64 55 53 56 53 60 51 54 67 62 61 58 52 55 63 54 57 65 63 W pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s pc s s s s s Hi 69 90 87 70 91 89 87 92 100 94 90 92 90 92 64 67 100 100 96 84 91 86 91 87 82 97 100 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 55 54 52 56 56 57 49 58 66 56 53 56 54 60 51 54 68 65 63 58 51 53 64 53 56 66 62 W pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s Lo 68 82 67 52 53 57 56 64 69 45 69 W t sh s r t pc pc s pc s r Wed. 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If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson 541-278-2683 • jperkinson@eastoregonian.com Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group TODAY BEND (AP) — New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that the Hispanic population in Central Oregon has been steadily SALEM (AP) — Gun sales in Oregon increased signiicantly in the days after the mass shooting at a central Florida nightclub. The Statesman Journal reports that state police data shows that 573 guns were sold June 12, the day of the shooting but just ive SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge www.eastoregonian.com Central Oregon sees increase in Hispanic population Oregon gun sales spike in wake of Orlando shooting Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery growing. The Bulletin reports that the estimates released last week show that the number of Deschutes County residents who identify as Hispanic rose by 18 percent between 2010 and 2015. They make up about 8 percent of the county’s population. The Hispanic population in Jefferson and Crook counties grew by 6.6 and 11.5 percent, respectively, over the same time period. Latino Community Associ- ation program manager Oscar Gonzalez says the organization is expanding its services and programs throughout central Oregon. The organization offers English tutoring, health services, computer training and other services to Latino families. Population estimates gathered last summer show that about 17 percent of the U.S. population is Hispanic. days later 1,364 guns were sold in a single day. On average, 558 guns were sold in Oregon each day of June 2015. Gun shop owner Doug Raaf says fear of gun control is one reason some gun owners purchase more guns after a mass shooting. Mass shootings, such as the one at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, often leads to talks of gun control legislation. Raaf says he often sees an increase in gun sales during presidential election years as fun owners fear disarmament. Portland woman fatally shoots intruder in her child’s bedroom Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — Hales repeatedly defended his weekslong silence, saying he was told the investigation was supposed to be swift and conidential, “and it was neither.” O’Dea had been chief since January 2015. His downfall comes a month after Sheriff Dan Staton of Multnomah County — which includes Portland — retired amid complaints that he, among other things, made inappropriate comments and created a hostile work envi- ronment. Ironically, the man who replaced Staton on an interim basis, Mike Reese, was the Portland police chief until he was replaced by O’Dea. Asked to explain the merry-go-round, Hales explained that police work is dificult, “particularly when people race to judgment in all things, and we expect — in 140 characters and a few minutes — to resolve every issue.” The shooting eventually became public. O’Dea was placed on paid administrative leave, replaced on a tempo- rary basis by an assistant chief, Donna Henderson. But Henderson and three other assistant chiefs are now under investigation for not initiating an internal investi- gation into O’Dea’s conduct. It’s all led to what Hales calls a period of “turmoil and confusion” for the Portland Police Bureau. Capt. Mike Marshman was promoted to chief, at least until the next mayor, Ted Wheeler, takes over in 2017. Hales, who is not seeking a second term, has been sharply criticized for not immediately telling Portlanders the chief had been involved a shooting. One of Monday’s hecklers called him a criminal for hiding information. Another repeatedly played a recorded message into a megaphone, asking Hales when he became aware of the “lies.” 2 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will extend from the Southern states to along much of the Atlantic Seaboard today. 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