Portland police on Saturday identified the two officers who killed a suspect in an exchange of gunfire that left another officer wounded the day before.
Officers Joshua Howery and Jake Ramsey returned fire after the male suspect started shooting at officers Friday morning at an apartment complex in the 1600 block of North Willis Boulevard. The suspect was killed, and another Portland police officer was shot in the hip.
Police have not publicly identified the suspect or the wounded officer, who was released later Friday from Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and is recovering at home.
Both officers who fired their weapons are on paid administrative leave, as is standard practice after police shootings. Howery is a 20-year veteran of the Portland Police Bureau, the agency said, and Ramsey has worked for the bureau for four years.
The officer was shot and suspect killed after federal narcotics agents called for help while trying to serve a search warrant.
The Drug Enforcement Administration was at the apartment building serving the warrant about 6:30 a.m. when the “suspect was uncooperative,” threatened to shoot agents and was armed, police said. The Police Bureau’s Special Emergency Reaction Team was called to the scene to help.
Portland officers set up a perimeter and surrounded the location. The suspect started “spraying the area with gunshots” from his apartment about 7:30 a.m., according to a source familiar with the investigation but unauthorized to speak. Witnesses said it appeared the shooting came from the second floor of the suspect’s building, but police did not confirm that.
Sgt. Kevin Allen, a Portland police spokesperson, said officers used non-lethal munitions in an attempt to get the suspect out of the residence, but Allen did not identify what kind. Allen did not specify whether officers were trying to enter the residence when the suspect was shot.
The officer who was shot was inside an adjacent building when a bullet went through the wall and hit him in the hip.
Police Chief Chuck Lovell said the DEA did not make Portland police aware of the search warrant before the agency called for assistance. The DEA is conducting its own investigation into the shooting, Lovell told reporters Friday.
A DEA spokesperson said the agency could provide no other details to “preserve the integrity” of the investigation.
The incident marked the third fatal shooting by Portland police this year.
On the morning of April 16, Officer Zachary DeLong shot and killed Robert Douglas Delgado, 46, in Lents Park. Delgado appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis and was reported making quick draws with a gun in the park. The gun turned out to be a replica.
On June 24, Officer Curtis Brown shot Michael Ray Townsend, 40, when he and others responded to a call about a suicidal man at a Motel 6 in Northeast Portland. Surveillance video showed Townsend approaching officers with a weapon in his hand. It was described as a screwdriver with a sharpened end.
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