A4 The BulleTin • SaTurday, June 26, 2021
Police shoot, kill Governor tells Japanese diplomat escaped
man in Portland inmate to be held accountable in attack
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Authorities
say a Portland police officer
shot and killed a man outside
a motel near the Oregon Con-
vention Center.
Police initially were called to
the Motel 6 on Thursday night.
Dispatch reports indicate the
first two officers were at the
motel about 7:15 p.m. Portland
Fire & Rescue emergency med-
ics also were at the scene when
the shooting occurred.
Police described the man as
a white adult. They said they
went to the motel for a welfare
check but released few details.
The man appeared to have a
weapon in his hand, Kalli Tem-
ple, who lives across the street
from the motel and watched
the scene unfold from her
window, told The Oregonian.
Police approached him and
looked as if they were trying to
get him to drop it, she said.
But he ran from them, Tem-
ple said.
An officer then shot the man
from about 8 to 12 feet away,
she said. Temple said it ap-
peared the man had been hav-
ing a mental health crisis.
The officer who shot him
was placed on paid adminis-
trative leave, which is standard
practice, as police and prosecu-
tors investigate.
Police said they would re-
lease the name of the man who
was killed after the medical ex-
aminer confirms his identity
and officers notify his family.
Heat
Supplies needed
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Medical centers and hospi-
tals have stocked up on cool-
ing hydration solutions, he
said. But at St. Charles, which
has been full of patients lately,
there could be long waits. At
1 a.m. Friday, Ansbaugh said
the emergency department had
55 people in the waiting room.
The hospital has 32 beds in the
emergency department.
“The hospital is full, and we
do have some anxiety about
the heat and travel and the
holiday weekend coming up,”
Ansbaugh said. “We’ll care for
people as quickly as we can,
but there will be a wait.”
Even Fido should be pro-
tected from the heat, accord-
ing to the Humane Society of
Central Oregon. Pets should
be kept inside away from the
heat and from direct sun.
Keep them cool and have lots
of water available, said Lynne
Ouchida, community outreach
manager.
Meanwhile, homeless ad-
vocates, churches and medical
centers are collaborating to
provide cooling sites for people
to take shelter in.
“Right now we’re reaching
out to the community,” said Dr.
Kim Montee at Mosaic Med-
ical. “I don’t remember ever
seeing a temperature over 103,
and I grew up in Madras.”
Montee said anyone spend-
ing a lot of time outdoors
should be mindful of sweating.
Avoid being out directly in the
sun, but if there’s no choice,
wear lightweight and light-col-
ored clothing. Drink lots of
water.
The Oregon Health Author-
ity says to be on the lookout for
excessive sweating, drenching
of clothes, Montee said. That’s
a sign of heat exhaustion,
which is a step away from heat-
stroke, which can cause death.
The signs of heat exhaustion
are feeling faint or dizzy, exces-
sive sweating, rapid or weak
pulse, nausea or vomiting,
cool, clammy skin or muscle
cramps.
“As the body attempts to
cool itself, it will sweat,” he
said. “So it’s the body’s way of
Pandemic Partners and the
First Presbyterian Church in
Bend are collecting resources
during the heat wave. Sign
up is on Facebook. Items
needed include sunscreen,
water, Gatorade, clothing,
tarps and lip balm with sun-
screen. The church, at 230
NE Ninth St. in Bend will be
open for cooling respite over
the weekend. Weekdays
Shepherd’s House, 275 NE
Second St., in Bend, will open
as a cooling shelter.
dealing with the heat and po-
tentially the first indication of
heat exhaustion.”
The signs of heatstroke are
more severe: throbbing head-
ache, confusion, loss of con-
sciousness, rapid, strong pulse,
nausea or vomiting, a body
temperature above 103 degrees
Fahrenheit, red, hot skin and
not sweating.
“It’s imperative to stay prop-
erly hydrated,” said Dr. Re-
becca Ferguson, from Summit
Health in Bend. “Aim to drink
at least half an ounce of water
for each pound you weigh.
“Drinking lots of water —
even if you don’t feel thirsty —
can stave off heat exhaustion,
and its potentially fatal cousin,
heatstroke.”
Morgan Schmidt, a pastor at
First Presbyterian Church in
Bend, said the community is
ramping up its efforts to help
those who don’t have a place to
stay cool.
“There’s not many places to
seek refuge from the heat right
now, but a lot of people are
working on it,” Schmidt said.
“There’s a lot of collaboration.
The community is coming
together to offer relief to our
most vulnerable neighbors,
those who live outside in the
midst of this unprecedented
heatwave.”
The church is offering a low
barrier to anyone who needs
to seek shelter from the heat.
There will be food, and water
and cool air from air condi-
tioners.
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The Oregonian
In a letter to Japan’s top diplomat in
Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown this week
expressed sadness and concern over
the attacks of two Japanese citizens,
allegedly by an inmate who escaped
from a prison work site in Washington
County in April.
Brown’s letter, dated Tuesday, was ad-
dressed to Consul General Masaki Shiga
of the Consular Office of Japan.
Shiga wrote a frank letter to Brown
on April 30, two weeks after the attack,
asking for support for the victims, ques-
tioning how the state Department of Cor-
rections allowed Jedaiah Lunn, a 14-time
felon, to slip away from a worksite and
warning of economic consequences as a
result.
Shiga told Brown the shocking incident
has prompted Japanese residents in Or-
egon — about 9,000 people — to recon-
sider their safety. The state is also a draw
for Japanese tourists. According to Travel
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Brown said the end of state
mandates and the disman-
tling of the four-tier risk level
system would be a welcome
change for residents.
But she warned that the
health crisis for the state is not
over with so many people not
able or willing to be vaccinated.
“Some 98% of people dying
from COVID-19 are unvacci-
nated,” Brown said.
Oregon Health Authority
Director Pat Allen said that
with the lifting of restrictions,
management of the pandemic
response will shift to local
governments.
Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian
Jedaiah Lunn was housed at the South Fork
Forest Camp in Tillamook and was on a work
crew at a Washington County campground
when he allegedly walked off and beat two
Japanese women.
Oregon, the state saw an estimated 73,000
visitors from Japan in 2019 who spent
about $80 million.
Brown responded by assuring Shiga
that Oregon values its ties with Japan
“and its citizens who choose to visit or de-
cide to make their homes here — a rela-
tionship based on mutual respect, cultural
Since Brown announced a
state of emergency in March
2020, the governor has been
the arbiter of what restric-
tions would be put in place
and where. Many Republicans
have criticized Brown for po-
litical overreach and damag-
ing the state economy with
early forced shutdowns and
later often changing limits.
But Brown has pointed to
Oregon’s relative success in
keeping COVID-19 infections
and deaths well below nearly
all states.
In place of Brown’s orders,
county commissioners will de-
cide public health actions, and
the state will only compile sta-
tistics and offer assistance.
appreciation, and strong partnerships.”
The governor stood by South Fork For-
est Camp, the facility where Lunn was
housed at the time he walked away. The
Department of Corrections and the Ore-
gon Board of Forestry have operated the
minimum-security prison outside of Til-
lamook since 1951.
The program offers several work op-
portunities, including firefighting, which
Brown told Shiga “has provided a tre-
mendous benefit to the state in terms of
wildfire preparedness, firefighting, and
wildfire recovery.”
Brown said the program “largely been
successful” and added that “this horrific
incident is a detriment to its longstanding
success.”
“To that end,” she said the Department
of Corrections and the Department of
Forestry are conducting “an administra-
tive review to examine what occurred, de-
termine what lessons can be learned, and
potentially implement changes to ensure
the program’s success in the future.”
“Local officials will be re-
sponsible for those decisions
and for the consequences,” Al-
len said.
Allen warned that areas
with high numbers of unvac-
cinated residents were “dry
tinder” for a blaze of virus
outbreaks.
Decisions on schools will
also shift to local leaders.
Oregon policy intends to
have “full-time, in person in-
struction,” said Colt Gill, di-
rector of the Oregon Depart-
ment of Education.
New guidance to schools
will be sent by June 30 and
will include summer-school
recommendations.
Allen said the June 30
shift is an attempt to handle
COVID-19 within the proto-
cols for other health policies.
Health officials are given
the maximum amount of re-
sponsibility. But it is not a
blanket removal of state au-
thority if things go awry.
“Nothing is off the table,”
he said
Brown said she believed the
new system will work and add
flexibility instead of a one-way
approach across all 36 counties.
But she did not rule out
statewide emergency orders if
the virus makes a widespread
resurgence.
“We obviously don’t know
what the future holds,” she
said.