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 […]
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