From the Oregonian, September 3, 2008. Not available elsewhere online. A $350,000 settlement has been tentatively reached between the city of Portland and the family of a man who was shot and killed by police in 2004. The proposed deal would end four years of litigation and provide payments into the future for the son […]
From the Oregonian, November 10, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. Leo Besner, the Portland police officer at the center of a $500,000 city settlement with the family of a man he shot in 2005, was involved in another shooting six years earlier. When the settlement was announced Thursday, Robert J. King, the president of the […]
From the Oregonian, November 9, 2007. Not available elsewhere online. The city of Portland is set to pay a record $500,000 settlement in connection with a 2005 fatal shooting in which a 30-year-old college student was shot in the back by a Portland Police Bureau sniper following a 90-minute armed standoff. Any settlement more than […]
From the Oregonian, December 22, 2005. Not available elsewhere online. Detective Rae Klein didn’t waste a moment trying to strike up a rapport with a 30-year-old armed suicidal man who had threatened to shoot the police from a Northeast Portland triplex on Nov. 4. “Ray, hi. My name’s Rae, too,” started Klein, a trained hostage […]
From The Oregonian, November 24, 2005. Not available elsewhere online. “You’re not in trouble. We want you to get help. That’s why we’re here.” — Hostage negotiator Rae Klein, trying to persuade Raymond Gwerder to put down his gun shortly before he was shot Several Multnomah County grand jurors who reviewed the police fatal shooting […]
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