Police arrest suspect in shooting near Oregon high school
By The Associated Press
Posted 8:32AM on Saturday, December 13, 2014
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Police in Portland have arrested a suspect in the shooting that injured three people outside an alternative high school.<br />
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Authorities said they stopped a vehicle around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at North Interstate Avenue and Going Street and arrested a 22-year-old man. A handgun was found in the vehicle.<br />
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Police were searching an apartment about half an hour later as part of the investigation. The apartment is about five blocks east of the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School.<br />
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Detectives are investigating and will release the suspect's name and charges after he is booked into the Multnomah County Jail.<br />
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Witnesses told police there may have been a dispute outside the high school on Friday, just before the shooting occurred at a street corner.<br />
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The assailant and two other people fled, and the wounded students went to the school for help, a police spokesman said. A 16-year-old girl was critically wounded while two males were hospitalized in fair condition. Another girl was grazed by a bullet.<br />
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"Based on the investigation thus far, the shooting appears to be gang-related," Sgt. Pete Simpson said Friday night in a statement.