

Police said the suspect was arrested and taken to the hospital for a non-life threatening gunshot wound. Greg Pashley, a public information officer for Portland Police Bureau.

The specific details that lead up to the shots fired is under investigation,” said Lt. “Officers were able to come in their cars from Miller to Ash and at that point there was shots fired.

Officers Ivan Alvarez and Jonah Gellman fired their guns, but no police were injured, PPB said. He then went west up West Burnside Street to Southwest Barnes Road.Īt 2:38 a.m., the suspect met a dead end on NW Ash Street where officers surrounded him, and police reported shots had been fired. The suspect briefly drove into Washington at 2:12 a.m., police said, and then drove back into Oregon, crossing the Fremont Bridge into Northwest Portland. When they found the truck near Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, they monitored the suspected car thief from the air as he drove at high speeds, sometimes into oncoming traffic, and nearly crashed more than once, PPB said. (KOIN) - A man who stole a pickup truck and drove across the metro area before he became trapped at a dead end was shot by officers early Sunday morning in Northwest Portland, police said.Īccording to the Portland Police Bureau, officers responded to a report of a stolen truck near Southwest 3rd Avenue and Ash Street around 1:30 a.m.
