The Oregonian, Dec. 5, 2013 A rookie Fairview police officer who shot a man during a welfare check early Tuesday recently had been cleared in another shooting 22 days earlier. Officer Brian Gerkman, 24, was placed on administrative leave this week after the confrontation at the Fairview Oaks-Woods Apartments complex at 22719 N.E. Halsey St. […]
KGW News, Dec. 3, 2013 A man was shot inside an apartment early Tuesday morning after police responded to reports of a man talking to himself, said Chief Ken Johnson of the Fairview police. A Fairview officer fired several shots in the unit at 22719 NE Halsey, Johnson said. Two Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies also […]
By Lynne Terry, The Oregonian, Sept. 12, 2012 The family of a man killed by Fairview police in January filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland on Wednesday, accusing the two officers involved in the shooting and the city itself of unreasonable use of deadly force, wrongful death and violation of the man’s […]
By Tom Hallman Jr., The Oregonian, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Saying his officer “did what he had to do,” the chief of the Fairview Police Department said Wednesday that an internal review of a January fatal police shooting shows it was not only justified, but likely saved the lives of three people. “It’s been a […]
Larry McKinney, 37, was shot and killed by Fairview police Officer Mike Morton on Jan. 27. It was the city’s first fatal police shooting. That evening, McKinney’s mother, Sandra Kelley, called 9-1-1 and asked for assistance getting her intoxicated son out of her apartment. At 11:52 p.m., officers arrived at the building. By 11:55 p.m., […]
By Anita Kissée, KATU News, Feb 2, 2012 FAIRVIEW, Ore. – Police say 37-year-old Larry McKinney attacked an officer with a knife last week and they were forced to shoot and kill him, but the family of the man say they don’t believe that’s what happened. McKinney’s longtime girlfriend and mother of his children, Mindy […]
From The Oregonian, January 30, 2012 Fairview police released the names of the two officers involved in the city’s first fatal police shooting on Monday, saying one of the officers had been attacked by the victim “brandishing a large knife” within moments of their arrival. Officer Mike Morton, a 15-year-veteran of the department, shot at […]
From The Oregonian, January 29, 2012 Detectives are investigating Friday’s shooting by Fairview police, as the mother of the man killed disputes the police account. Shortly before midnight Friday, two officers responded to a 9-1-1 call to Wood Creek Apartments near the corner of Northeast 203rd Avenue and Halsey Street. There, one or both officers […]
One man dead after officer-involved shooting in Fairview, KATU.com, January 28, 2012 Man shot, killed by officer in Fairview, KOIN.com, January 28, 2012 Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Fairview that left one man dead Friday night. Police said officers responded to a disturbance call at 11:47 p.m. at the Woodcreek Apartments at Northeast […]
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