Alleged hit-and-run driver faces 31-count indictment, accused of killing 1, injuring 7 others in SE Portland rampage
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
A Multnomah County grand jury returned a 31-count indictment Wednesday against a man accused of striking and killing one woman and injuring seven other people in a wild, 15-block rampage in his Honda Element last week in Southeast Portland.
The indictment charges Paul Rivas with second-degree murder and failure to perform the duties of a driver in the killing of Jean Gerich, 77, a pedestrian who was hit twice and then dragged for a block.
She died about three hours later from blunt force trauma at OHSU Hospital, according to her son and daughter.
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Alleged hit-and-run driver pleads not guilty to 31-count indictment in Portland vehicle rampage that killed 1, injured 7
Paul Rivas, who at one time lived in Woodland, has March 2019 conviction in Clark County for second-degree voyeurism By Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com
Share: Motorist Paul Rivas, 64, speaks behind a protective glass alongside sheriff s deputies as a public defender, in red mask, listens in the court room at the Justice Center in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2020. The motorist accused of hitting pedestrians, bicyclists and killing a 77-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to murder and has given detectives bizarre explanations about the incident, according to court documents. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)