PPB’s [Portland Police Bureau] gun violence reduction team was
disbanded in the summer following the criticism of advocates who said that the gun violence reduction team was stopping people of color disproportionately to others.
24 December Officer Jennifer Pierce. was injured when a person hit her with a stolen pickup truck in the gas station lot in the 3900 block of Southeast Powell Boulevard on December 24, 2020, is Officer Pierce, a 15-year veteran, suffered a fractured pelvis and is still in the hospital.
Press Release: PPB Investigates Two Individuals Shot and Two Other Shootings
On December 23, 2020, North Precinct officers responded to t reports of a stabbing. Officers arrived on scene and located the victim who had escaped to safety in a nearby neighbor’s apartment. Officers learned the victim had been stabbed in the temple with a knife but expected to survive.
Woman, 53, identified as victim caught in gang crossfire in deadly North Portland shooting
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
Kelley Marie Smith, 53, died at the scene of a North Portland shooting on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. (Family submitted photo)
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Portland police Saturday identified the victim of a fatal shooting two nights earlier as 53-year-old Kelley Marie Smith.
Smith was killed in front of her husband by gang-related crossfire and was not the intended target, authorities said. She died at the scene shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday near North Vancouver Avenue and North Stanton Street in the Eliot neighborhood.
Smith’s family released a photo.