A .22 caliber pellet rifle lay in the doorway of an apartment Friday, Oct. 4, 2024 at Southeast 52nd Avenue and Lambert Street in Portland, where police had responded to a report of a man making threats with a rifle. The man died on the scene after an officer shot him.
Courtesy of Portland Police Bureau
A man wielding a .22 caliber pellet rifle and a knife is dead after being shot by a police officer early Friday morning in Southeast Portland.
Police were called just after 12:30 a.m. to the report of a man with a rifle making threats in an apartment building near Southeast 52nd Avenue and Lambert Street in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood.
According to police, the first officers on the scene found the man holding the rifle. The officers set up a perimeter around the building, called in a crisis intervention team, and asked neighbors to shelter in place.
About an hour later, an officer shot the man. He died at the scene. Police have not said what happened just before the shooting.
The shooting is the latest in a spate of regional police shootings in the last two weeks.
Those include a man shot and critically injured in Milwaukie on Monday, Sept. 30, a fatal shooting in Vancouver on Sept. 27, a nonfatal shooting by Portland police on Sept. 26 and a shooting outside an elementary school in Milton-Freewater on Sept. 24, in which one person was injured.
The officer involved in the Friday morning shooting was put on administrative leave while police conduct an investigation.