PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man was taken to the hospital after being injured in a police shooting early Wednesday morning, Portland Police Bureau (PBB) said.
Around 5:05 a.m., detectives with the Portland Police Bureau’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, along with the Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT), were serving a search warrant in the 2700 block of Northeast 137th Avenue. PPB said there then was an "encounter" with a man — identified as 44-year-old Patrick W. Meyers of Portland — and officers, which resulted in a police shooting.
Meyers was injured and taken to a local hospital, PPB said. Police said he will be booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center following his release from the hospital.
No officers were injured in the incident, according to PPB. On June 11, Portland police identified the officer involved in the shooting as Seth Wingfield, an eight-year veteran of the bureau assigned to SERT. Wingfield is on administrative leave.
Neighbor Lynne Gibbons told KGW that they were woken up around 4 a.m. by loudspeakers, calling three times for the man to come outside of the house. A neighbor then texted Gibbons, saying that the confrontation was happening down the street.
Though the neighbors got a text from the county telling residents to stay inside, Gibbons said they went outside, adding that they heard loud booms that might have been flash bangs, then three to four gunshots.
"It's a pretty quiet neighborhood here," Gibbons said, adding that her interactions with Meyers were limited to saying hello and that he lived with his girlfriend in the house. "The cops came with all the SWATs, all the robots ... never seen that before."
Gibbons said shortly after the gunshots, someone, presumably Meyers, was transported by ambulance.
Mike Benner with PPB confirmed that detectives and SERT began serving the search warrant and "breaching" the front door of the home at 6:08 a.m. PPB said the search warrant was affiliated with an indictment with six counts of encouraging child sex abuse in the second degree and one count of encouraging sexual assault of an animal.
Meyers, who was armed with a rifle, fled out the back door, and one of the SERT members shot him, Benner recounted. The SERT officer will be placed on paid administrative leave as per standard protocol.
Meyers is expected to survive, Benner said.
Chief Bob Day said Wednesday morning that PPB is working with the district and city attorney's offices, the East County Major Crimes Team and the Office of Independent Police Review.
Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact Detective Stephen Gandy at stephen.gandy@police.portlandoregon.gov or 503 823-0449 or Detective Jeffery Pontius at jeffery.pontius@police.portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-0433. Reference case No. 24-680356.
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