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Tense hospital scene after shooting increases alarm over Portland’s gun violence ‘crisis’
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A flood of Portland police cars responded late Monday to break up a report of a gang fight at the doors to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center’s emergency department, where four people with gunshot wounds had just arrived.
The scene was reminiscent of scenarios two decades ago when officers, street outreach workers and pastors routinely headed to the hospital to cool tensions between rival gangs.
Those days are back, say police, former gang members and community leaders.
The city is on track to shatter its record annual homicide count of 70 in 1987. So far this year, 33 people have died in homicides and about 130 have been wounded in more than 400 shootings. Four people have been killed in the city since a week ago Sunday.
Portland police have responded to four shooting homicides and 14 gunshot injuries this month alone. The agency has also recovered 231 shell casings throughout the city and received 40 reports of shootings since the beginning of the month.
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Portland Nears 400 Shootings in Five Months as Police Grapple for a Response 22 people have lost their lives to gun violence in Portland in 2021. Updated May 14 at 11:17 PM As Portland nears 400 shootings in less than five months, nearly every regional law enforcement agency including the FBI’s Portland field office is coordinating a street presence this weekend in hopes of deterring retribution. As of Friday, 23 people had died in Portland shootings this year. As of Thursday, 388 non-suicide shooting incidents had left 125 people injured, according to Sgt. Kevin Allen with the Portland Police Bureau.
Man shot and killed at party in Portland’s Lents neighborhood identified by police
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
Jemare Lowell Manns, 21, died after being shot at a party in the Lents neighborhood over the weekend.
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Jemare Lowell Manns, 21, died of a gunshot wound, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner determined.
Officers responded to reports of gunfire at a house in the 8500 block of Southeast Harney Street just before 1 a.m. Sunday, police said in a statement.
Officers found a large crowd and “a chaotic scene, with what appeared to be a house party underway,” according to police.
Manns was found unconscious, and though Portland Fire & Rescue and American Medical Response paramedics responded and attempted life-saving measures, he died at the scene, according to police.