Lory Caldwell was watching TV with her daughter in her Northwest Portland home around 11:20 p.m. Friday night when they heard a series of loud bangs outside her window.
“We must have heard five to six shots,” Caldwell said. “We could hear the woman screaming.”
Caldwell called the police, and officers arrived within minutes. She then called her husband, Stephen Caldwell, to tell him about the incident. He was returning from a business trip to Texas.
“Sure enough, I got off the freeway and arrived at the same time as the swarm of police,” he said.
Caldwell said he could see the car where a man and a woman had been shot. He noticed the man slumped over the steering wheel, he said. He watched as police and medical personnel tried to revive the man, but he died at the scene.
The woman was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said in a statement Saturday.
Officers responded to the shooting at Northwest 17th Avenue and Irving Street at 11:23 p.m. They found the man and woman shot and administered first aid until paramedics arrived.
The suspect had fled before officers arrived. Lory Caldwell said she did not see anyone leave the scene.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact Detective Erik Kammerer (Erik.Kammerer@police.portlandoregon.gov, 503-823-0762) or Detective Mike Schmerber (Michael.Schmerber@police .portlandoregon.gov, 503-823-0991). ) and reference file number 23-110484.
– Austin Of God; adedios@oregonian.com; @austindedios; 503-319-9744
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