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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.
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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.
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days later 1,364 guns were sold
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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
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Portland woman
fatally shoots intruder
in her child’s bedroom
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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.”
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