Portland Police Shootings: Both Suspects Had Replica Guns

The suspects in the two Portland Police Officer-involved shootings on Thursday were carrying replica guns when shot, officials announced on Friday. The first shooting - involving 17-year-old Quanice Hayes - was fatal. The victim in the second shooting - 56-year-old Don Perkins - is expected to survive.

In the first shooting, an officer shot and killed an armed robbery suspect - Hayes - Thursday morning in Northeast Portland. It happened on the 8300 block of Northeast Hancock.

Officers had responded to the Portland Value Inn at Northeast 83rd and Halsey around 7:30. A man reported that he had been sleeping in his car when an armed man woke him and robbed him.

Soon after someone at or near the Banfield Pet Hospital on Northeast 82nd Avenue called police to say that a man was prowling cars. They offered a description similar to the one offered by the man who had been robbed by the Value Inn.

Around 9:20, officers searching for the suspect located a home on Hancock that had been broken into. Officers from the Canine Unit searched the home but found no one inside.

Officers outside then found him. During the encounter, an officer - identified on Friday as Officer Andrew Hearst, a seven-year-veteran - fired at the suspect, striking him, and killing him. The replica gun was found near his body.

No officers were injured.

On Friday, Mayor Ted Wheeler said "when the person who killed is a black teenager, it taps into deep, historical wounds," referring to a time when Portland Police developed a bad reputation about how white officers dealt with black teens, something it is still looking to recover from.

The second incident happened just before 8 p.m. at Southeast 22nd Avenue and Lafayette Street.

Portland Police say that a man - identified on Friday as Perkins - was severely wounded but survived and has been hospitalized.

Officers had responded to a call just after 6:30 Thursday evening to a call of a 56-year-old suicidal man on the 2100 block of Southeast Lafayette Avenue. They eventually found Perkins a few blocks away. He was in a car on the 3300 block of Southeast 22nd Avenue.

Officers - including one assigned to the bureau's Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team - established communication with Perkins. During that time, they developed information that he had a handgun.

At one point, Perkins finally exited the car. Police say that he then had an encounter with officers that resulted in two of them firing shots.

Perkins was also found to have had a realistic-looking replica firearm.

Officers quickly gave him medical assistance until an ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital.

The officers who shot Perkins have been identified as Roger Walsh and Bradley Clark, both 11-year veterans of the bureau.

He is currently in critical condition but is expected to survive.

All three officers have been placed on adminsitrative leave.

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