Week #154 Shooting Report | UPDATED | Here’s a look at the three major shooting incidents, all near outer East Portland …
Day and night, Portland Police Bureau officers, investigators, and detectives are investigating a still-escalating number of deadly shootings.
Story and some photos by David F. Ashton
Here it is, the “Week #154 Shooting Report” – more stories of violence and murder committed by violent people with guns in and near our neighborhoods. When did the nearly three years of shooting havoc begin? CLICK HERE to find out.
There were dozens of “Shots Fired” calls in outer East Portland neighborhoods this week, and a couple of “Shooting-with Weapons” that didn’t result in injuries. However, this weeks three major shooting incidents happened not far from our neighborhoods.
May 19
Teen dies in 82nd Avenue of Roses shooting
Police close off the intersection of NE 82nd Avenue of Roses and Fremont Street after a deadly shooting takes place. Courtesy KPTV-TV
On the sidewalk near the Roseway neighborhood Popeye’s Restaurant, at the intersection of NE 82nd Avenue of Roses and Fremont Street a man lay bleeding after being shot on Friday evening, May 19. Witnesses told reporters it was obvious that the young man had sustained a severe head wound.
Portland Police Bureau (PPB) North Precinct officers, dispatched to the scene at 11:18 p.m., found “an injured victim in the street”, as a PPB official put it. “The suspect or suspects left and no immediate arrests were made.”
Officials weren’t clear if the victim had died at the scene, in an ambulance, or later at a local hospital. However the PPB’s Homicide Unit responded to investigate what turned out to be another gunshot murder.
NE 82nd Avenue of Roses is blocked to all traffic, between Fremont and Beech Streets, for about five hours during the on-scene investigation.
UPDATE
On May 24, 19-year-old Savon Marquis Davis was identified as the shooting victim. The Medical Examiner confirmed his manner and cause of death to be homicide by gunshot wound.
If you have information about this incident, please contact Detective Mike Schmerber at Michael.Schmerber@police.portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-0991 or Detective Rico Beniga at Rico.Beniga@police.portlandoregon.gov 503-823-0457 and reference Case No. 23-131383.
May 23
Shooting forces lengthy street closure in the Foster-Powell neighborhood
An officer blocks SE Boise Street, just west of 82nd Avenue of Roses, while others look into a domestic disturbance.
Neighbors who live along S. E. 80th Avenue wondered why their street was closed down from early in the morning of Tuesday, May 23, until late in the afternoon.
Officers taped off 80th Avenue, prohibiting vehicles and pedestrians from use of the street from Cora to Gladstone for about 15 hours, starting about 12:45 a.m.
SE Boise Street was also closed off a half-block west of 82nd Avenue of Roses.
During the day, here looking west S. E. Boise Street, an officer guards the location of the domestic disturbance and shooting.
According to official records there were two “Disturbance, Priority” calls on the 8000 Block of SE Boise Street: One on May 22 at 11:28 p.m.; and another an hour later at 12:47 a.m. on May 23..
“There were several calls to this location during the night and early morning concerning disturbances; it’s not clear exactly what happened,” PPB Public Information Officer Lt. Nathan Sheppard told East Portland News later in the day.
A Fire/Medical call was dispatched to the same location at 3:24 a.m. on May 23.
Officers continue to patrol the crime scene area.
“The last [call] led to a shooting, and that shooting is suspected of being “DV” (Domestic Violence) related,” Lt. Sheppard followed up. “A woman was transported to a local hospital, and detectives are currently investigating, he said, without commenting on the extent of the injuries she had sustained.
Detectives remained at the scene throughout the following day, well into the late afternoon hours.
If you have information about this incident, please email it to crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov, and make reference to Case No. 23-134426.
May 24
Daytime shooting murder in Tabor South
NE Glisan Street is shut down to all traffic and pedestrian, after a morning shooting leaves a man dead. Courtesy KATU-TV News
A shooting in the morning of Wednesday, May 24, reportedly left a man dead in his car along NE Glisan Street near 55th Avenue.
At 9:18 a.m., PPB East Precinct officers were dispatched there, and found a deceased adult man.
Other than saying that the PPB Homicide Unit had been sent to the scene and assumed control of the investigation, officials added nothing else to their press release.
Gun located nearby
However, a pedestrian in the area told reporters that a window of a car had been shot out. And, another person told of seeing officers find a gun one block south, near NE Flanders Street, in the bushes at the Grace Covenant Fellowship Church – but it’s unclear if this weapon was related to the shooting.
The PPB Mobile Command Center parks on the street, giving Homicide Unit detectives a place to work. Courtesy KPTV-TV News
No suspect or suspects were found at the scene, and no arrests have been made.
UPDATE
Homicide victim Jessie Lavell Marks Sr. Family photo via PPB
The victim in the May 24 North Tabor homicide is identified as 36-year-old Jessie Lavell Marks Sr.; the Medical Examiner determined that he died of homicide by gunshot.
Again, if you have information about this incident and have not yet spoken with police, contact Detective Mike Jones at Michael.Jones@police.portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-0405, or Detective Erik Kammerer at Erik.Kammerer@police.portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-0762 – and be sure to refer to Case No. 23-135639.
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Although hoping is not a strategy, we do hope that the good work done by the Portland Police Bureau’s specialty “illegally-held-gun-confiscation teams” will pay off, and that they are not hindered in this by Portland’s Commissioner of Police.
© 2023 David F. Ashton ~ East Portland News™
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