A woman was found dead in her car after a shooting in Southeast Portland that also injured a man and two children inside the car, police said.
At the end of an already violent weekend of several shootings, Portland police were called about 10:30 p.m. Sunday to a car crash in the 12800 block of Southeast Foster Road. On their way to the scene, officers received calls about gunshots in the area and were told that someone had possibly shot at the car.
When police found the car in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood, the woman had died and a man and two children were suffering from gunshot wounds and were taken to a hospital. The man was in critical condition, police said, and the two children were in stable condition.
Southeast Foster Road was closed overnight from Southeast 122nd Avenue to Southeast 138th Avenue for the homicide investigation.
Police ask anyone with information to contact Portland Police Detective William Winters at William.Winters@portlandoregon.gov 503-823-0466 or Detective Jason Koenig at Jason.Koenig@portlandoregon.gov 503-823-0889.
This story may be updated.
–Savannah Eadens; seadens@oregonian.com; 503-221-6651; @savannaheadens
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