LOCAL & STATE
6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2020
Suspect in Portland shooting killed by federal officers
By Michael Balsamo and
Ted Warren
Baker County D.A. discusses local
charges against shooting suspect
Associated Press
LACEY, Wash. — A man sus-
pected of fatally shooting a supporter
of a right-wing group in Portland
last week after a caravan of Don-
ald Trump backers rode through
downtown was killed Thursday as
investigators moved in to arrest him,
the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.
The man, Michael Forest Reinoehl,
48, was killed as a federal task force
attempted to apprehend him near
Lacey, Washington, about 120 miles
north of Portland. Reinoehl was
the prime suspect in the killing of
39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson,
who was shot in the chest Saturday
night, a senior Justice Department
offi cial told The Associated Press.
Federal agents from the FBI and
the U.S. Marshals Service had located
him on Thursday after a warrant was
issued for his arrest, and Reinoehl
pulled a gun during the encounter,
the offi cial said. The offi cial wasn’t
authorized to discuss the matter pub-
licly and spoke to the AP on condition
of anonymity.
A U.S. Marshals Service statement
later said the fugitive task force “at-
tempted to peacefully arrest him.”
“Initial reports indicate the suspect
produced a fi rearm, threatening the
lives of law enforcement offi cers.
Task force members responded to the
threat and struck the suspect who
was pronounced dead at the scene,”
the statement said.
The U.S. Marshals Service fugitive
task forces, comprised of deputy
marshals, other federal agents and
local law enforcement offi cers from
a variety of agencies, are responsible
for apprehending violent felons and
other wanted suspects.
Thurston County Sheriff’s Lt. Ray
Brady said four task force members
CANDIDATES
By Chris Collins
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
Nathan Howard / Getty Images
Investigators move the body of a man who is reportedly Michael
Forest Reinoehl after he was shot and killed by law enforcement on
Thursday in Lacey, Washington, near Olympia.
fi red their weapons, including two
Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies,
an offi cer from the Lakewood Police
Department and an offi cer from the
Washington State Department of
Corrections.
Brady said investigators haven’t
yet determined how many rounds
were fi red.
The suspect was alone at the time
of the shooting, Brady said, with no
children or other people present.
Brady said he doesn’t think the
suspect lived at the address where
he was shot, and it’s not clear what
brought him to Lacey.
“We don’t know that specifi cally
yet,” Brady said. “I do not believe that
was his residence.”
Reinoehl had described himself
in a social media post as “100%
ANTIFA.” A regular presence at anti-
racism demonstrations in Portland,
he suggested the tactics of counter-
protesters amounted to “warfare,”
and had been shot at one protest and
cited for having a gun at another.
On July 26, Reinoehl was shot near
the votes to Gudman’s 41.7%.
Gudman points out that he
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trailed Read by about 42,000
Other candidates for
votes in an election where a
secretary of state are Shemia third candidate, Chris Telfer,
Fagan, the nominee of the
received almost 174,000 votes.
Democratic and Working
Telfer not only is not seeking
Families parties, Kyle Markley the offi ce this year, but she has
of the Libertarian Party, and
endorsed Gudman.
Nathalie Paravicini of the
He is optimistic that the
Progressive and Pacifi c Green prospect of gaining many of
parties.
the votes that went to Telfer in
2016 will give him an advan-
Treasurer candidate
tage over Read, the incumbent.
Jeff Gudman
“I think that’s going to be a
Gudman, a former Lake Os- big difference,” Gudman said
wego city councilor, is familiar in an interview prior to Thurs-
with the challenge of seeking day’s event in Baker City.
a statewide elected offi ce as a
Gudman said that although
Republican.
he understands the challenge
He was the Republican
that any Republican candidate
nominee for state treasurer in faces in seeking a statewide
2016, losing in a competitive
offi ce, he doesn’t see the trea-
race to Democrat Tobias Read, surer’s position as a partisan
who received almost 44% of
one.
his elbow after he got involved in a
scuffl e between an armed white man
and a group of young people of color.
The man who was carrying that gun,
Aaron Scott Collins, told The Orego-
nian/OregonLive that he and a friend
had just left a bar when they saw the
group harassing an older Black man.
His friend began fi lming them with
a phone, and the group confronted
them, calling them Nazis, he said.
Reinoehl later that day spoke to
an AP videographer. His arm was
wrapped in a bloody bandage; he said
he was on his way to meet protest
medics so they could change it.
He said he didn’t know what had
started the altercation between Col-
lins and the group, but that several
people had decided to intervene when
they saw Collins fi ghting with
minors.
“As soon as the adults jumped in,
he pulled out a gun,” Reinoehl said. “I
jumped in there and pulled the gun
away from people’s heads, avoided
being shot in the stomach and I got
shot in the arm.”
“My vision for this state is
serving all Oregonians,” Gud-
man said. “The treasurer posi-
tion is one about competence.
To me it is not a Democrat or
Republican or Independent
issue.”
He contends Read has been
too passive as treasurer.
Gudman cites as examples
the revenue shortfalls the
state must deal with due to
the pandemic, and Oregon’s
ongoing challenge to reduce
the cost of its Public Employ-
ees Retirement System.
“Tobias is nowhere to be
found to offer his thinking
about these issues,” Gudman
said.
Although he acknowledges
that state offi cials have limited
options in dealing with PERS
because many of the benefi ts
to retired public employees
Baker County District At-
torney Greg Baxter said Baker
County misdemeanor charges
against Michael Forest Reinoehl
would have been a lower priority
compared to the murder charges
the Portland man would have
faced in a fatal shooting there.
But the matter is moot now,
as Reinoehl, 48, was fatally shot
by federal agents when they
tried to arrest him Thursday in
Washington.
The Baker County District At-
torney’s Offi ce charged Reinoehl
on June 22 with driving under
the infl uence of controlled sub-
stances, reckless driving, reck-
lessly endangering and unlawful
possession of a fi rearm, all Class
A misdemeanors.
Reinoehl was accused of
endangering his 11-year-old
daughter, who was a passenger
in the vehicle he was driv-
ing during the alleged June 8
freeway race, which police said
reached speeds of up to 111 mph.
Reinoehl was driving a 2005
Cadillac STS and his 17-year-
old son, who was not named by
police, was driving a Subaru
Impreza as they traveled east
on the freeway. The boy also was
charged with driving under the
infl uence of marijuana and un-
lawful possession of a fi rearm.
Reinoehl’s unlawful posses-
sion of a fi rearm charge accused
him of traveling with a loaded
are contractually guaranteed,
he believes Read should have
advocated for Oregon to use
hundreds of millions of dollars
in revenue resulting from the
2017 federal tax bill to reduce
PERS’ unfunded liability.
Gudman also contends that
Read, as the elected offi cial “in
charge of the balance sheet for
handgun that was concealed and
readily accessible to him in his
car, for which he did not have a
concealed handgun license.
The gun remains in evidence
with the Oregon State Police,
said Pam Smith, OSP offi ce
specialist in Baker City.
Reinoehl was scheduled to be
arraigned on July 8. He did not
show up for the arraignment
and Baker County Circuit Court
Judge Matt Shirtcliff issued a
warrant for his arrest on a fail-
ure to appear charge that day.
Reinoehl was arrested on July
5 for interfering with a peace
offi cer and resisting arrest and
possession of a loaded fi rearm
in a public place during a
protest in Portland, but under a
policy that Multnomah County
District Attorney Mike Schmidt
announced, Reinoehl was not
charged.
Schmidt said his offi ce “will
presumptively decline to charge
cases where the most serious
offenses are city ordinance
violations and crimes that do not
involve deliberate property dam-
age, theft, or the use or threat of
force against another person.”
Baxter expressed his opposi-
tion to Schmidt’s policy.
“(Reinoehl) was released in
Portland because their district
attorney has a policy where he’s
not charging people at the pro-
tests. So he got out and allegedly
committed this murder,” Baxter
said.
the state,” should have advo-
cated for the state to use about
$85 million the federal govern-
ment gave the state a decade
ago to upgrade the computer
system for the Employment
Department.
Problems with that system
have contributed to delays
in paying unemployment
benefi ts to thousands of Orego-
nians who lost their jobs due to
the pandemic.
Besides Read and Gud-
man, Michael P. Marsh of the
Constitution Party and Chris
Henry, the nominee of the
Independent, Progressive and
Pacifi c Green parties, are run-
ning for state treasurer.
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