Man With Fake Gun Arrested Near Raleigh Hills Elementary School

RALEIGH HILLS, OR — Beaverton police announced lockouts at Garden Home Recreation Center and Montclair Elementary School Thursday morning following reports of a man with a gun in the area. Washington County Sheriff's deputies were able to locate and arrest the man just after 10:45 a.m.

Joren Meade Rash-Gitner, 25, was taken to the Washington County Jail reportedly for disorderly conduct. No bail information was yet available at publishing time.

Sheriff's spokesman Dep. Jeff Talbot told Patch Rash-Gitner appeared to be suffering from a mental health crisis of some kind and was seen "waving a gun around" at an apartment complex where he lives near Southwest Garden Home and Southwest Oleson roads.

Talbot said Rash-Gitner's family reported the gun was fake.

No injuries were reported and no shots were fired — which was preferable, Talbot said, "so we can get him the help he needs."

At the same time just down the road, sheriff's deputies also responded to a bank robbery, Talbot said.

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