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by Blair Stenvick • Apr 23, 2021 at 8:36 pm
A memorial for Robert Delgado in Lents Park. Jordan Brokaw
Community members, family, and friends of Robert Delgado gathered in Southeast Portland’s Lents Park Friday evening to remember Delgado, who was shot and killed by a police officer in the park one week ago.
“This is pretty overwhelming to see everybody show up and give support,” Kirkpatrick Fries, Delgado’s brother, told the
Mercury. “He was a great guy. He loved his family. And he’d be happy to see this.”
During the two-hour vigil, a crowd of over 100 people gathered near the park’s baseball field, where a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officer shot Delgado last week after allegedly seeing him holding what appeared to be a gun. (PPB later said a replica handgun was recovered at the scene.) Classic rock music played from a car parked on the grass, and the community organization PDX Saints served food and handed out bl
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By - Associated Press - Saturday, April 24, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The family of the man fatally shot by a Portland police officer is calling on the governor and state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to do an independent investigation of the incident.
Robert Delgado was shot last Friday by East Precinct Officer Zachary DeLong at Lents Park in Southeast Portland.
His children and other relatives gathered Friday at the Portland law offices of their attorney, J. Ashlee Albies, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.