HILLSBORO, Ore. — Hillsboro police identified on Monday the man who was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Les Schwab store in Hillsboro on Friday, April 8 as 27-year-old Carlos Arellano-Garcia.
According to Sergeant Clint Chrz, a spokesperson for HPD, officers were dispatched to the Les Schwab located at 320 Southeast 10th Avenue in Hillsboro at 4:11 a.m. April 8 after dispatch received reports that multiple shots had been fired and a person was lying in the parking lot.
When officers arrived, they found the shooting victim in the parking lot. Chrz said the victim was dead when officers arrived.
Officers used a K9 and other search methods to find the suspect, but as of 6:20 a.m. Friday, no suspect was in custody. Chrz said police do not believe the public is at risk.
HPD tweeted at 5:47 a.m. that the parking lot where the shooting happened was taped off and nobody was allowed in the area. No roads were shut down in the area.
Thursday's shooting happened about 20 miles outside of Portland, west of the city. Portland and many of its surrounding areas have seen a surge in gun violence the past couple years.
In the city of Portland, there were more than 1,300 shootings last year, compared with about 400 in 2019 and 900 in 2020. Through just the first two months of 2022, there were nearly 250 shootings in the city of Portland, according to PPB's shooting incidents dashboard. In many cases, including homicides, there have been no arrests.
This was the second shooting in Washington County in the past few days. On Wednesday night, multiple shots were fired into a moving vehicle on Highway 26 a few miles northeast of Hillsboro.
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