An apartment in the Hazelwood Station complex in southeast Portland was shot up Friday night. It happened around 10 p.m. Police said that several shots were fired into an apartment. The apartment was occupied by a woman and 4 children at the time.
Residents says the violence has been a nightmare. The family that was in the apartment was upstairs with their kids when the shooting started. After they called police and things calmed down, he discovered their car had been shot up. Others were happy that none of the bullets went into their homes. Police said that several bullet holes could be seen in the door. A woman and four children were inside when it happened. No one was hurt.
Next door to that apartment the police found one with a bullet hole in the walls. That hole was from a shooting just a couple months ago as police has confirmed.
A resident said, “We don’t know what we’re gonna do we have to move, because like I said this is the second shooting in just a couple months and with three babies, we have twin 8-month-olds, so it’s an impossible thing, you’re always scared when you’re downstairs that someone’s gonna run by and shoot up the place.”
No one has been arrested and there are no suspects. Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese says similar situations are happening in many parts of Portland. “It’s tragic what’s happening in our community right now,” he said.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office published a map that shows violent crime hot spots around the county. Worthy’s apartment complex falls in one of them. The Sheriff’s Office’s Gun Disposession Unit has seized 86 guns as of May 17 this year. That’s nearly double what they seized in all of 2021.
