Police arrest man for US high school shooting
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POLICE in Portland, in the US state of Oregon, have arrested a man in the shooting that injured three people outside an alternative high school.
Authorities said they stopped a vehicle about 1:30am yesterday and arrested a 22-year-old man. A handgun was found in the vehicle.
Police were searching an apartment about half an hour later as part of the investigation. The flat is about five blocks east of the shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School.
Detectives are investigating and will release the suspect’s name and charges after he is booked into the Multnomah County Jail.
Witnesses said there may have been a dispute outside the high school on Friday, just before the shooting occurred at a street corner.
The assailant and two other people fled, and the wounded students went to the school for help, a police spokesman said.
A 16-year-old girl was critically wounded while two males were hospitalized in fair condition. Another girl was grazed by a bullet.
“The shooting appears to be gang-related,” Sergeant Pete Simpson said on Friday night.
He declined to say which victims might be linked to gangs.
“There was some kind of dispute between the shooter and some people,” Simpson said.
The victims are students at the high school or in affiliated job training programs, police said.
Police identified the hospitalized victims as Taylor Michelle Zimmers, 16, who was in critical condition; David Jackson-Liday, 20; and Labraye Franklin, 17.
Olyvia Batson, also 17, was treated at the scene after a bullet grazed her foot.
A student, Oliviann Danley, 16, said she saw a boy run into the school and yell, “Oh my God, did I just get shot?”
Rosemary Anderson High School serves at-risk students who were expelled or dropped out, or who are homeless or single parents.
Gang violence in Portland isn’t a new phenomenon. Some of the violence occurs between rival gangs, but bystanders have also been hurt.
“We’ve made a lot of progress in addressing the gang problem, but we haven’t eradicated it,” Mayor Charlie Hales said.
Dani Gonzales, 64, has lived in the neighborhood for 25 years and said it’s generally safe but there has always been some gang activity.
“Kids get silly and get crazy ideas. I don’t know what goes on in their heads,” he said.
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