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1 dead, 1 critically injured in separate Portland shootings Friday evening

The fatal shooting happened in the Lloyd District, and the other was in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood where a suspect was arrested, police said.
Credit: KGW

PORTLAND, Ore. — Police said that one person is dead after a shooting in Northeast Portland's Lloyd District on Friday night, and another person was critically injured in a separate shooting in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood earlier in the evening.

A suspect for the Beaumont-Wilshire shooting has been detained and charged with attempted murder, according to police, but no suspect has been found for the Lloyd District shooting.

Lloyd shooting

Officers responded just after 9:45 p.m. to a report of someone shot at Northeast 6th Avenue and Northeast Holladay Street, according to a news release from the Portland Police Bureau.

Police arrived to find an injured man at the scene. PPB said that officers applied trauma first aid and called for emergency medical services, but the victim died before they arrived.

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Whoever shot the victim was gone by the time officers arrived, according to PPB, and no arrests have been announced as of Friday afternoon.

Police identified the victim Monday as 24-year-old Marlan Johnson, and said the medical examiner had confirmed his cause and manner of death to be homicide by gunshot wound.

Credit: Family of Marlan Johnson
Marlan Johnson

PPB's homicide unit responded to the scene to investigate, and police temporarily shut down portions of Northeast Holladay and 6th Streets. TriMet said the MAX Blue, Green and Red lines were also disrupted near the Oregon Convention Center, just southwest of the shooting scene.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Detective Meghan Burkeen via e-mail at Meghan.Burkeen@police.portlandoregon.gov or call 503-823-2092, or Detective Brian Sims at Brian.Sims@police.portlandoregon.gov or by phone 503-823-2079. Reference case number 23-165334.

Beaumont-Wilshire shooting

The other shooting was reported at 5:42 p.m., drawing officers to the intersection of Northeast Fremont Street and Northeast 50th Avenue in the Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood, according to a separate police news release.

Officers arrived and found an injured adult male victim. They treated him with trauma first aid until EMS arrived, and then he was taken by ambulance to a hospital with "critical, life-threatening injuries," police said.

The suspect remained on scene and was arrested. Police identified him Friday as Andrew S. McNulty, 58. He was booked in Multnomah County jail on charges of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.

Anyone with information about the shooting who has not spoken to police is asked to email the Enhanced Community Safety Team at crimetips@police.portlandoregon.gov and reference case number 23-165145.

According to PPB statistics currently gathered through the end of May, Portland has seen at least 443 shootings this year. This death is believed to be 40th homicide that the agency has responded to thus far.

This is a developing story and will be updated with more details as they emerge.

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