This is KGW news at sunrise and good morning.
Thanks for getting up with us on this
Saturday morning. I'm Tim Gordon.
This morning on sunrise,
terrifying moments outside of Fred
Meyer as witnesses say multiple
gunmen sent shoppers into a panic.
Plus 20 fires in two weeks.
A serial arsonist strikes Mount Tabor Park
with the flames getting close to homes.
But before we get to all that,
let's check in with Chris McGinnis for
a quick look at our Saturday forecast.
Good morning. Good morning.
For three day week, yes,
Sir, some clouds
and some cooler temperatures,
so I'm happy to share that with you.
We'll give you the live look from
our Rose City Sky camera. Obviously,
it's it's still dark and early out there,
so you can't see the cloud cover.
But on my way in,
I looked up but I couldn't see these stars.
So that's how I know it's cloudy
and in fact the satellite does back
that up and so does the observation.
Out at PDX.
It's 64 right now at the airport elsewhere
across SW Washington and Northwest Oregon.
Vancouver checking in with 63.
Hillsboro at 60.
We slide S into the Willamette
Valley right now and in the low.
60s as well and Kaiser,
Salem and Annsville.
So I'm relatively mild burning out there.
The planned for today, Saturday.
Lots of cloud cover this morning.
The clouds are going to
be slow to break up today,
at least for the morning hours.
So expect a mostly cloudy morning but a
sunny afternoon and high temperatures today.
How about this,
Tim?
We keep it in the 70s today.
Ah,
sounds really nice, doesn't it?
Yeah. Thanks, Chris. See you soon.
Well, Multnomah County sheriff's
deputies are investigating a shooting
outside the Wood Village. Fred Meyer.
That's on NE 223rd and Gleason.
Witnesses say around 432 men
began shooting at each other.
This was yesterday afternoon.
One was standing in the parking lot,
the other was by the front entrance.
Evidence markers show bullet
casings in the parking lot there,
and you can also see where the bullets.
Broke out the windows, the glass doors,
the front of that store,
Fred Meyer tells us all customers
and store associates were safe.
Witnesses we talked with
described what happened.
I don't know where we are shots.
I look outside, there's a guy,
there was a car park.
He was behind the car with
his hand over his head,
shooting randomly towards Fred Meyer.
There was another guy like in the
center of Fred Meyer shooting back.
Well, the Sheriff's Office tells us
they detained one person of interest,
but have not made any arrests yet.
Although suspect accused of shooting a cab
driver in the back Thursday morning on
I-205 appeared in court on Friday and his
lawyer says it's a case of mistaken identity,
47 year old Bradley Stanwood
faces multiple charges,
including attempted murder.
Prosecutors say the motive was road rage,
but the defense attorney said the
suspects car is designed to sound like
it's backfiring and he wasn't the gunman.
Well, investigators are searching
for an arsonist who's been setting
fires in Mount Tabor Park, Portland.
Portland Fire says someone set 15 to
20 fires in the last couple weeks.
Most of them were started at night
and were spotted and put out before
they grew too big.
But they say they're worried because
some of them are getting close to homes
and crews will be patrolling the park,
and neighbors are asked to keep
a look out there.
Well,
we're hearing more stories about the
connection between out of control driving
and violence during recent illegal St races.
Thursday we told you about a woman
who died while waiting at a bus stop.
Now the story of a man who had
nothing to do with the chaos,
but was attacked and ended
up in the hospital.
Here's KGW's alma McCarty.
The way neighbors in the Rose Way area
describe it, it didn't matter if you
were close by, standing blocks away
or physically inside
your home. The sound was just
going right through buildings. You
could hear it loud and clear screeching
of the tires, the bam bam bam
of almost like a cannon fire, St
Racers and Drifters.
Even someone armed with
a flamethrower on NE 72nd
and Sandy Sunday night.
An illegal St takeover.
John Westfall was
on the phone with his partner Ken,
who he said was getting
more anxious by the minute.
This anxiety just kept building and
building such that he felt like he
had to come out and confront it,
John said. Ken began recording a video
and that's when things took a turn
had some might come up to him.
And the man, then he stopped photographing
and then proceeded to take his foam,
break it in half just about,
and then start pounding his face until he
was knocked unconscious on the ground.
Neighbors Shanna and Joshua Kramer.
We realized that there
was just swarms of people
saw the tail end of this violent interaction.
Ken have been knocked unconscious
and was laying on the ground.
When we were on the phone with 911
we were. Being placed on hold.
And then when we did finally talk to them,
they said that it was going to
be a little while because the
ambulances couldn't come through
because of all the parked cars.
This chaos, one scene of several
last weekend, some of those
deadly 20 year old Cameron Taylor was
watching a street takeover on the Marine
Dr Overpass of I5 when shots were fired.
He was hit and killed in Southeast
Portland while waiting for a bus.
26 year old Ashley McGill was
hit by an out of control car,
one of two racing down Stark.
She died instantly.
If we're not going to be able to do it
safely, we're not going to be able to do it.
While Portland police did not reveal
a plan for this upcoming long weekend
when it comes to street racing,
the Bureau told KGW back in May it's
a struggle to handle these calls.
These events can.
Expand into hundreds of vehicles,
many hundreds of people,
and we know that we can't address
that with just a few officers,
John explains. Ken just moved to rehab,
still recovering from head and face injuries.
He's said in the hospital he doesn't
remember anything and I'm hoping.
That perhaps that is a good thing. Neighbors
crossing their fingers for calm roads
this weekend, or at the very least
a more serious police response. You
should be able to have a game plan
for them before they get to this size,
before somebody gets hurt, you know?
Portland police told us earlier this
week that officers dealt with seven
shootings and four homicides last weekend,
hindering their ability to respond to
or break up these large St takeovers.
Well, a new rapid transit bus line is
coming to Mill Plain Blvd in Vancouver.
It is the second line for
those buses coming up next.
Folks on the first line tell us why everyone
should be excited for this new service.