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Police seek witnesses to juvenile altercation, assault in NW Bend
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Contact between two groups of Deschutes River floaters led to a confrontation and fight Sunday evening among juveniles on a street in northwest Bend, injuring one person, police said Monday, as they asked to hear from any witnesses to the altercation and assault.
Police were dispatched around 5:20 p.m. to the 500 block of Northwest Riverside Boulevard, where witnesses reported seeing a fight between a group of juveniles in front of homes in the area, Lieutenant Clint Burleigh said.
The contact among the two groups began while floating on the river, Burleigh said, adding that “the group of suspects followed the victims in an attempt to engage in conversation after exiting the river at Drake Park, near the Galveston Bridge.”
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Few details were available, but police identified the victim as a 31-year-old man. As of late Friday afternoon, police identified the man as Reginald English.
After being called about the shooting, officers found the man on the sidewalk near the intersection of Ninth Street and Daisy Avenue, just east of Drake Park, police said. He had gunshot wounds to the lower and upper parts of his body, police said. He died at the scene, according to the LBPD.
“The motive for the shooting remains under investigation by homicide detectives,” police said. “There is currently no suspect information.”
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