From the Oregonian, July 3, 2012 A Multnomah County judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors can admit Officer Dane Reister‘s prior 2006 firearms mistake as evidence in his pending trial stemming from his June 30, 2011 shooting of William Monroe in Southwest Portland. But Judge Jean Kerr Maurer dismissed a negligent wounding charge that the district […]
From The Oregonian, May 17, 2010 A Portland police sergeant testified Thursday that he saw a similarity between Officer Dane Reister‘s mistaken firing of a lethal round from his beanbag shotgun in 2011 and a firearms mix-up Reister made years earlier during training. In both cases “a round was fired improperly out of a weapon,” […]
From the Oregonian, October 21, 2011 The attorney for Portland Police Officer Dane Reister doesn’t dispute that her client mistakenly loaded his beanbag shotgun with lethal rounds and seriously wounded a man in Southwest Portland June 30. But Reister’s lawyer, Janet Hoffman, plans to argue in court next week that the officer’s mistake resulted from […]
From The Skanner News, August 31, 2011 Case of Kyeron Fair, charged with Measure 11 for being present during robbery, again put in limbo A teenager hospitalized in the Oregon Health and Sciences University cardiac intensive care unit last year while suffering a mental health crisis in Multnomah County Sheriffs custody, has suffered another mental […]
Darris Johnson died from a heart attack in custody of Portland Police officers after he ran from a routine car stop. He was twenty-six years old. The Multnomah County District Attorney found no reason to indict the officers involved. Here is a letter describing the incident. . Johnson’s urine drug screen was positive for methamphetamine […]
From the Portland Tribune, November 20, 2008 Schrunk’s top assistant, “Maximum” Norm Frink, has said his office will criminally review whether officer Christopher Humphreys lied to detectives. But it’s an open question about what that means. A jail video released last month shows that on the night James Chasse Jr., died following an altercation with […]
From the Portland Tribune, November 13 2008 Officials consider whether Portland cop should be prosecuted for lying to investigators The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office said Thursday that it will review the police investigation surrounding the 2006 death of James Chasse Jr. to determine whether Portland Police Officer Christopher Humphreys lied to police detectives during […]
From The Oregonian, March 25, 2006 – not available online Timothy W. Grant died from a cocaine overdose and not from the two Taser stun gun shocks that a Portland officer applied Monday, the Oregon state medical examiner announced Friday. Dr. Karen Gunson said she found a very high level of cocaine in Grant’s blood, […]
From The Oregonian, October 30, 2003 The state medical examiner’s office has ruled that the death of a teenager who traded gunshots with a Portland police officer after a traffic stop last week was a suicide. Eddie Homsombath, 19, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger Oct. 21 after he crashed his […]
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