On Tuesday, a Portland judge handed down the ruling for 40-year-old Cody Melby, who fired a 9 mm handgun in the exterior of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland on January 8.
Beavercreek man charged with shooting Portland federal courthouse January 13 2021
Cody Melby had attended Salem Stop the Steal protest prior to allegedly firing shots into the Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
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An armed man upset about the results of the 2020 presidential election fired five shots into the side of Portland s federal courthouse on Friday, Jan. 8, according to court documents filed in federal court Sunday.
Cody Levi Melby, 39, of Beavercreek, reportedly climbed over the temporary security fence erected last summer to keep racial justice protesters outside the federal courthouse before he opened fire on the building, the documents state. No one was injured in the attack.