Crime

Jurors took less than a day to convict the gunman, Guillero Raya Leon, on all counts.

Portland Fire and Rescue officials say Fredy Javier Paredes-Kancab, 34, died by suicide.

Guillermo Raya Leon is facing charges of aggravated murder for shooting and killing Detective Jeremy Brown in July 2021. The detective was a late addition to an investigation into a recent firearms theft.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with bias crime and assault after allegedly stabbing two 17-year-old boys on a MAX light rail train in Southeast Portland.

39-year-old Christopher Lee Pray was jailed on several charges, including attempted aggravated murder. He escaped from the Oregon State Hospital Wednesday night.

A long-time correctional officer at Oregon’s troubled women’s prison faces charges for sexual misconduct. Last month, a former nurse at Coffee Creek was convicted of sexual abuse. A recent legislative report also found the prison is systemically failing women in custody.

Police said $60,000 to $100,000 worth of merchandise was stolen and one of the robbers is reported to have used a chemical spray on a security guard.

A man named in media reports as a person of interest in the deaths had an earlier sentence commuted by former Gov. Kate Brown, but he would have been out of prison at the time of the deaths regardless.

Authorities say a man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape.

Negasi Zuberi is in federal custody. Authorities say he kidnapped a woman from Seattle and trapped her in a cinder block cell in Klamath Falls.