An elderly woman found dead by Portland Fire & Rescue at 6405 N Greeley Ave. shortly before midnight on Dec. 24 was the 15th person killed in a residential fire this year. That matches Portland’s single-year record, set in 1994.
Shortly before 9 pm on Christmas Eve, a man was shot and killed on the Bus Mall in Old Town, at the corner of Northwest 6th Avenue and Davis Street. Police say the suspects fled the scene. They haven’t publicly identified the victim.
At 2pm on Christmas Day, a driver struck a person riding a skateboard at the corner of North Interstate and Mississippi avenues. The skateboarder died at the scene. The driver fled, and police are investigating the death as a hit-and-run.
Portland has already set a single-year record for homicides in 2021 with 84 as of Dec. 9 and is nearing the highest one-year toll of traffic fatalities 59 as of Dec. 21, depending on how the number is tallied.
