A shooting in North Portland left one man dead and another seriously wounded Tuesday night, police say.
Officers responding to calls about the sound of gunfire found the two men in a car shortly before midnight on the 1600 block of North Terry Street. Both had been shot, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
The driver was taken to a nearby hospital with “significant injuries,” police say. Fox 12 has identified the wounded man as Josiah Kuehl.
Kuehl’s wife told the TV station that her husband is an Uber driver and was dropping off a passenger when another vehicle pulled up next to Kuehl’s car and someone inside that vehicle started firing.
The passenger, whose name has not been publicly released, died at the scene, police say.
Police closed North Terry Street from Fenwick to Interstate Avenue during the initial stage of the investigation. They ask anyone who might have information about the shooting to call 503-823-0457 or contact Det. Sean Macomber at Sean.Macomber@portlandoregon.gov or Det. Rico Beniga at Rico.Beniga@portlandoregon.gov.
The homicide is believed to be the 52nd of the year in Portland, pushing the city toward 2021′s record rate, when at least 92 people were killed in homicides.
And it wasn’t the only shooting in Portland on Tuesday as temperatures crested 90 degrees Fahrenheit. A man was shot in a southeast neighborhood early in the afternoon. He’s expected to survive. Police say that, after an hours-long search, they arrested a 27-year-old named Benjamin Clark, who was driving the victim’s car.
— Douglas Perry; dperry@oregonian.com
