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An evident drive-by shooting Tuesday adjacent Jefferson High School wounded 2 students and sent others screaming and scrambling for screen soon aft classes were done for the day.
One pupil reported proceeding much than a twelve shots fired extracurricular the schoolhouse gym on North Commercial Avenue.
The students’ injuries are not life-threatening, according to Marifer Sager, spokeswoman for Portland Public Schools. Police received a study that 1 of the injured students had suffered a coiled to the limb and entered the gym soon aft the shooting.
North Precinct officers were successful a rotation telephone erstwhile they learned of the shooting, reported astatine 3:59 p.m.
Police received reports that 2 teens wearing look masks and driving successful a achromatic Hyundai Elantra fled the country of the shooting.
The car crashed adjacent astatine North Alberta Street and Vancouver Avenue and teens ran from it, according to police.
Police received reports that 2 teens wearing look masks and driving successful a achromatic Hyundai Elantra fled the country of the shooting. The car crashed astatine North Alberta Street and Vancouver Avenue, and teens ran from the vehicle, according to police. Dave Killen/The Oregonian
Jefferson High sophomore Mesert Melda said she was successful the gym erstwhile different girls ran successful screaming that determination had been a drive-by shooting.
A teacher told the students to instrumentality structure successful the school’s audio signaling room.
Melda said astir 15 shots had been fired.
“I was acrophobic for the radical outside,” the 16-year-old said. “I wasn’t truly acrophobic for myself, due to the fact that I knew that I was harmless inside.”
Two students person been wounded successful a shooting extracurricular Jefferson High‘s gym successful North Portland
A sophomore says students ran into the gym screaming; determination had been a drive-by shooting with 15 rounds fired.
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By 5:30 p.m., a twelve officers had placed yellowish grounds markers adjacent North Emerson Street and Commercial Avenue and a constabulary forensic criminalist was photographing the transgression country extracurricular the entranceway to the gym, wherever the motto, “Home of the Demos,” is written supra the doors.
Officers besides surrounded the damaged Hyundai Elantra located astir 4 blocks away. Police person not said if anyone has been arrested.
Neighbors crossed the thoroughfare from the schoolhouse said they saw a idiosyncratic connected a gurney being loaded into an ambulance with an evident limb wound.
They bemoaned troubles successful the country astir Jefferson successful the past twelvemonth and a half, including stolen cars ditched on streets, thoroughfare racing and carjackings.
The shooting comes arsenic the metropolis is connected gait to scope oregon surpass the grounds 92 homicides that occurred successful Portland past year. Through September of this year, determination person been 997 shootings reported successful the city. At this clip past there, determination were 965, according to police.
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