Portland Police Bureau Chief Chuck Lovell said no arrests have been made and called for peace.
“The issue with firearms is very troubling to us, but people do have a constitutional right to carry firearms legally,” Lovell said. “So, it’s hard to prevent. Some of the instances that take place, you’re talking split-second, a couple of seconds. A lot of times we’re not right there to see things happen.
The caravan of Trump supporters rolled through Portland Saturday evening following a rally in nearby Clackamas.
Fights and other skirmishes broke out between the groups. By 8:30 p.m., the caravan had left downtown, and 15 minutes later, the shooting occurred.
Videos and photos of the shooting spread on social media, and images showed the man wearing a Patriot Prayer hat.
“We love Jay and he had such a huge heart. God bless him and the life he lived,” Gibson wrote on his Facebook page.
Patriot Prayer is a right-wing group “about fighting corruption, big government, and tyranny using God for strength and the power of love,” Gibson wrote on the group’s Facebook page.
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