KGW news at 11 good evening and let's get
right to breaking news on this Friday night
and a stabbing that has left one man dead.
Police say they responded to the Lentz
neighborhood just after 7:00 this evening
and that is when they found a body
outside a home on SE 98th Ave.
with apparent stab wounds.
Right now 98th is closed
north of Mount Scott Blvd.
And what is very much an active scene.
No arrests have been made.
We will update you of course,
as we learn more.
Are you guys speaking for law enforcement?
We have history at this House with weapons.
I do have confirmed three patients.
They're all unconscious.
Well, that is radio traffic from
first responders inside a Mcminnville
home working to save lives in
the middle of a mass overdose.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm David molko.
One woman died and six other people were
hospitalized in appears because of fentanyl.
And as Tim Gordon reports tonight,
the scale of the emergency.
And so many people at once in some ways,
seem to overwhelm the response.
I do have confirmed three patients.
They're all unconscious.
A tough way to start this
Friday for Mcminnville.
First responders from fire and EMS
to the Police Department called to
this home on northwest Cedar St.
about 1:00 AM inside they
found four people unconscious,
2IN cardiac arrest and all the
signs of fentanyl overdose.
A four people were treated.
We used all the naloxone,
all the Narcan that we had in our cars,
and I and I believe fire
used up theirs as well.
So just a A, you know?
Multiple doses had to be
administered to these,
to these people that were that
had overdosed at the residence.
Police chief
Matt Scales says his officers
were called in to help.
There were two guns visible in
the home and they immediately got
involved with medics doing CPR and
delivering the opioid antidote Narcan.
In fact, Yamhill County deputies
brought more Narcan to the scene to
help volunteers to South Station 1.
Cameron, can you get more Narcan from
Medic one before they leave, please?
You can hear from radio traffic this was.
An all out life saving effort at the
home and at the same time two people
were being dropped off by private car
at Willamette Valley Medical Center.
Police now know they were from the same home,
also suffering from the same
type of overdose.
Don't trust a drug dealer,
don't trust anything that you don't
know where it came from period. Police
believe all six were ingesting cocaine
that they probably weren't aware was
laced with fentanyl back on Cedar St.
they've always been very nice that people
that have interacted with and don't we.
Don't ever have any problems with them.
What happened sinks in for
neighbor Anika Strickland.
Just the idea that, like you,
you never know what exactly it
is you're gonna be getting and
the way that that can just, like,
literally end your whole entire life.
Unfortunately, that's exactly the
result for one young woman now dead
and the others recovering from a
type of overdose. All too common.
Not just in the state of Oregon,
not in Mcminnville.
It's nationwide. We all know that.
This is when it hits smack,
then it hits home.
Tim Gordon. KGW news
let's get to an update
tonight on the explosive
allegations that Oregon Liquor
Commission execs were reportedly
skimming top shelf bottles for
themselves organs attorney general has
now opened a criminal investigation.
Alma McCarty is in The Newsroom tonight.
Alma walk us through what
we know so far here.
Well, David Ellen Rosenblum today
announcing she is looking into
ethics violations related to both
Commission staff and she says,
possibly others.
According to The Oregonian,
this comes after an internal investigation.
Last year, where the executive director
admitted to diverting warehouse liquor
for his own use a couple of times,
specifically naming Pappy van Winkle's
23 year old Whiskey a very rare and
highly sought after bourbon which can
cost thousands of dollars a bottle.
Five other officials were also reportedly
implicated doing the same thing,
having the liquor sent to the liquor store,
where they then bought it and kept
it for personal use or as gifts
during an interview with an internal.
Investigator,
one official reportedly fulfilled
requests for liquor hundreds of times.
Even, he said, for legislators.
Here's Lewis and Clark.
Professor Tung yin.
Maybe the investigation itself is
just simply a indication that.
This matter is serious enough in some sense,
whether it's the scale of potential
misconduct or simply the public confidence
in the government that it warrants at
least having an investigation so that
the public will understand that, hey,
these are government regulators in a sense,
they have power over the rest of us,
but there are watchdogs who are
going to look into the matter.
Now you may remember,
Governor Kotek has already written
to the Commission's board calling
for the Commission to install
new leadership removing the
managers that allegedly abused
their position for personal gain.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press,
a spokesperson for the OLC said
they will comply fully with the
criminal investigation. David,
thanks, Alma.
I appreciate the update tonight.
Let's get you caught up on
tonight's other headlines.
Now, on the heels of the Chinese
balloon the Pentagon announced today,
it shot down an unknown.
An unmanned object flying in US airspace
off the Arctic coast of Alaska.
Now military officials say whatever it was,
about the size of a small car,
was flying at an altitude that posed
a threat to commercial flights.
The remnants came down onto iced over waters.
Officials say they should be able
to quickly recover the debris.
A partnership designed to clean
up Portland camps on ODOT land
is already out of money.
Odot says it provided the Rose City
with $2,000,000 for the fiscal year,
which ends in June.
It is now up to the city.
To manage those funds,
they say it appears the money
has already been spent.
Now both say they are working to
find extra funding and you're
looking at a traffic alert for this
weekend that's underway right now.
The Morrison Bridge shut down live
pictures here to all vehicles,
plus bikes and pedestrians as
of about an hour ago.
Now, this is for painting and maintenance,
which is going to run through the weekend.
That wraps up at 5:00 on Monday morning.
County officials say they have more
closures planned for the end of the
month and at the beginning of March,
well, the building that once held
Portland's oldest Chinese.
American restaurant has a new owner,
Upano.
The Asian Pacific American Network
of Oregon bought the Canton Grill
building at SE 82nd and division,
and instead of ripping out
memories and starting over there,
asking the community to weigh in.
So far,
Upano says they've received more
than 100 responses through a survey.
Some want to see the building
turned into a green space,
others prefer affordable housing
or new health services,
and yet others spaces for
childcare or Youth Services.
But the network says no
matter what it evolves to,
they are planning to keep.
Culture and community at the center.
This is a business that was open for
for 76 years, and just everyone that you
talked to has really great memories of
coming here to get food, to sing karaoke,
to be your friends and family.
So, you know, we want to preserve an element
of that and also look to the future.
And no final decisions yet.
As far as timeline goes, Duncan
says they are taking things slow.