PORTLAND, Ore. — A man has been arrested for shooting and killing a woman in Northeast Portland Saturday night, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reported.
The suspect, 43-year-old Donnell L. Watson of Gresham, faces charges of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and felon in possession of a firearm. Watson was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center.
Officers responded to a reported shooting at 6:37 p.m. Saturday on Northeast Everett Court, just off Northeast 160th Avenue between Northeast Glisan Street and East Burnside Street in the Glenfair neighborhood. They found the woman, later identified 45-year-old Shamesha Danaee Allen, dead at the scene.
The medical examiner determined she died from a gunshot wound, and ruled her death a homicide.
Homicide investigators were seen on board a stopped TriMet bus but there's no information about how that may be related to the shooting.
There have been 64 homicides in Portland so far this year.
Anyone with information about this fatal shooting who has not already talked to police is asked to contact Detective Brian Sims at 503-823-2079 or brian.sims@police.portlandoregon.gov or Detective Meghan Burkeen at 503-823-2092 or meghan.burkeen@police.portlandoregon.gov. Please reference case number 23-300353.
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