Portland police shot and wounded a person during a Northeast Portland traffic stop late Friday. The person shot was hospitalized with what police described as life-threatening injuries.
The Portland Police Bureau said little about what led to the shooting, saying in a statement only that it unfolded after two officers on patrol in the Roseway neighborhood stopped a vehicle just after 9 p.m. on suspicion of multiple violations.
The shooting occurred near the corner of Northeast 78th Avenue and Mason Street in a residential area off of Sandy Boulevard with narrow streets lined with houses. Police suggested they had interviewed several witnesses and asked others who hadn’t spoken to officers on the scene to contact the Portland Police Bureau.
The two officers who initiated the traffic stop were members of the Focused Intervention Team, which the bureau created in January to curb rising gun violence.
Police did not say whether the wounded person was armed but said an initial report that an officer was shot was inaccurate. Neither officer was injured.
Police did not identify the officers involved, nor the person injured. They did not say how many officers had fired.
Deputy Police Chief Mike Frome was on the scene of the shooting and had briefed Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office, police said. Chief Chuck Lovell is out of town attending a conference on gun violence at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Wheeler, who serves as police commissioner, praised the work of the Focused Intervention Team during his State of the City address earlier Friday.
Since the team of two sergeants and 10 officers hit the streets earlier this year, he said its officers have made 176 arrests, seized 49 guns and assisted other officers in high-risk arrests in homicide cases. The team recently extended its coverage from four days to five days a week.
Wheeler described the team as “an example of my community-led policing model,” noting that a Community Oversight Group helped create a job description for the officers and interviewed and helped select members of the team. The volunteer group meets weekly to hear updates from the team and its supervisors.
It was formed after the city cut funding for the Police Bureau’s Gun Violence Reduction Unit in 2020 amid calls for police reform and criticism that the team disproportionately targeted people of color.
-- Elliot Njus; enjus@oregonian.com
Maxine Bernstein contributed to this report.
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