Two Arrested, Shotgun Seized in Kelly Butte Gunfire Investigation: Police

PORTLAND, OR – Portland police said Tuesday they arrested two men in connection to a shooting investigation.

According to Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson, officers from the East Precinct headed out to the area of Southeast 110th Avenue and Tibbetts Street upon receiving "multiple reports of gunfire" just after 11 p.m. Monday.

"Officers arrived in the area and observed several people leaving the wooded area," Simpson said in a news release.

While leaving, one of those people apparently tossed a bag into the woods, but police later recovered it and found a "pistol grip shotgun and spent shotgun shell" inside, according to Simpson. That person was later identified as 19-year-old Ronald David Nelson, who was arrested.

A second person, identified as 20-year-old Ronald Lee Spingner, Jr., was also arrested as a part of the investigation, police said. Both men were booked on charges of unlawful use of a weapon.

(Images: Ronald Lee Spigner, Jr, left, and Ronald David Nelson, right, were both arrested late Monday. Images courtesy of the Portland Police Bureau.)