This is KGW news at noon.
Good afternoon. I'm Drew Carney.
Thanks for joining us for the news at noon.
And we start this afternoon with the
latest details on an overnight shooting
in Yakima that left three people dead.
Yakima police say it happened around
3:30 this morning at a Circle K
store where the suspected shooter,
we see him right there, opened fire.
So that is a shot of the suspect,
21 year old Jared Haddock,
taken from security footage at the
Circle K police say he then went across
the street to another gas station.
Get into a car that police think
belongs to Haddock and took off.
The Accomac County Sheriff's
Office says police have located
a home where they believe haddock
is and a SWAT unit is there.
Records show that Haddock has
a recent criminal history,
including motor vehicle theft.
Yakamas police chief says this
morning shooting appears to be a
random incident that there was no
apparent conflict between the suspect
and the three people who he shot.
We'll continue to update this story for
you online at kgw.com and on TV later
this afternoon during our news at 4:00 PM.
We're also continuing to follow
the latest on the mass shootings in
California over the last few days.
Police say the suspect in the first
shooting on Saturday in Monterey Park
near Los Angeles had just one previous
arrest more than 30 years ago in 1990,
for unlawful possession of a firearm.
But they also say 72 year old.
The 72 year old identified as who
can Tran was acting strangely in the
days leading up to Saturday shooting.
They say he spoke to police in Hemet,
the small town where he lived.
About 80 miles from Monterey Park,
just a few days before the shooting,
he told them that his family had
once tried to poison him and he was
the victim of both fraud and theft.
He also told the police that he
would come back with evidence,
but he never did.
NBC's Jay Gray has more for us this
afternoon from Southern California.
As the investigation and mourning
continues here in Monterey Park,
the state of California now
dealing with three mass shootings
and as many days the first here,
11 people killed inside the dance
studio just behind us here as they
were celebrating the Lunar New Year.
The 2nd in Oakland, one killed,
7 injured and the third just yesterday
in Half Moon Bay in the Bay Area,
7 killed and one injured there,
and the 1st and 2nd here in Monterey Park,
as well as in Half Moon Bay.
There are a lot of similarities.
Older Asian men, the suspects,
the gunman according to police and and
attacking members of the Asian community.
We also know that in both these cases,
while we don't know a motive,
investigators do say that they
appear to be personally driven,
not any kind of act of terror.
Now here in Monterey Park we're
learning a little bit more about the
evidence being recovered by officers.
We know that there were 42 shots
fired inside the dance hall.
Yeah, and at the suspects home,
we know that they recovered weapons,
a cache of ammunition, over 100 rounds.
We also know that there were supplies
to make homemade suppressors
in the suspects home as well.
Again,
no motive in any of these shootings
at this point as the state of
California continues to grieve,
just overwhelming loss in
the last three days.
That is the latest from here in
Monterey Park. I'm Jay Gray.
Now back to you.
Meanwhile, there is a local connection
to the Monterey Park shooting.
A Vietnamese American lawmaker here in
Oregon knows people in that community.
And I hope this shooting does not.
Be representative of
what the new norm can be.
It is very sad for the
communities in California,
Southern California,
as well As for the Asian community.
We all have families and
friends throughout the state.
Friends of Representative Tran,
who we just heard from there,
say she was actually a member at the
ballroom where Saturday's shooting happened.
The shooter was also a member,
and Tran says he had been
dancing at the ballroom.
For more than 20 years.
Public it down.
Put your head down, Bob.
Put your head down.
That's about 15 seconds worth
of a shootout between an armed
robbery suspect and police that
happened yesterday in Salem.
It went on for about another 10 seconds.
A viewer was driving by the scene at
the time, and they sent us this video.
Meanwhile, KGW's Mike Benner went to
Salem on Monday to talk to witnesses who
watched that entire shootout unfold.
Late Monday morning at the corner
of Kubler and Commercial in Salem,
investigators fly a drone in hopes
of getting a better look at the
scene of a deadly police shooting.
I don't see anything like this before. This
man's in shock by what started
as an armed robbery in the
Walmart parking lot, we're told.
As officers with the Salem
Police Department responded,
the suspect ran to the nearby Planet Fitness,
then across the street to Napa Auto Parts.
It's here where officers exchanged
gunfire with the suspect
turned around. That I shot a couple
times and then the cuffs shot back,
which they should have and they have
a couple times he fell to the ground.
He got back up.
He didn't get totally back up.
He just leaned up back up
and started shooting again.
Then the cops started shooting him
about 6 or 8 times and really hit him.
You can hear the gunfire in this video.
Witnesses, including this woman,
who wanted to remain anonymous,
recall hearing dozens of gunshots.
That's pretty scary.
We locked up shop and just head to
the back behind the concrete wall
and make sure everybody nobody
got a stray bullet or anything.
Fortunately, there were no
injuries to bystanders or police,
but we're told the suspect was
killed in the shooting. Troubling.
If you ask the man who owns
the property where it happened.
It's a shame to you know that.
You know, you don't know if he's
on drugs or mental problems,
and that's sure to be part of
the investigation that had a
stretch of commercial St.
in Salem shut down for
much of the day Monday.
Somebody died like that.
But he the cops who they did a good job.
They they had to do, they had to do.
That's all I'm telling
you. I'm Mike Benner for KGW news.
Alright, Vancouver police meanwhile,
and the FBI are asking for help to
find this missing 8 year old boy.
His name is Brett and John,
and the FBI says he's actually
been missing since last June.
At that time, members of the Community
asked Vancouver police to conduct
a welfare check at the boy's home,
but officers were not able to find him.
They say bridson's grandparents
were his last known guardians and
the grandparents have recently been
charged with custodial interference.
Authorities say they have not
been able to contact.
Any of the boy's other relatives,
so they're asking if you've seen him
or if you know anything about britson,
you should contact Vancouver police.
Alright, take a look at this now.
A new study by Forbes Home ranked
Oregon ninth highest in the country
when it comes to rent prices.
The report used numbers from the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis and the
Department of Housing and Urban Development
have found the average rent price in
Oregon is just under $1300 a month.
But when you consider the average Oregon
income in 2021 was just over $60,000,
that means the average renter spent
about 25% of their paychecks on housing.
Really, you're not going to rent a
home for less than two grand anymore,
and you're going to be more like
2200 plus now for a home.
Once the inventory that couldn't
sell goes away, it's rented,
I do believe rental just
start climbing again.
That is Darla Andrew,
the owner of Rent Portland home.
So she says by spring or summer time,
the average rent price here could
jump another $200.00 a month.
By the way, Hawaii was listed as the
most expensive place to rent in.
California was ranked second.
True.
Wouldn't it
be great if Hawaii were the
cheapest spot? We'd all go rent.
Well, we'd still have the
airfare to worry about. Rod.
Well there's that problem, isn't there?
What do you have for us local
weather wise this afternoon?
Ohh, look how pretty this is.
We're down in Lincoln City.
Chinook Winds casino resort.
The live camera there
looking out over the Pacific.
They'll be up to about 50 degrees
this afternoon. Gorgeous day.
Kind of fun to watch the swells with
the live camera feed come rolling in.
We have some different worlds.
This is totally different, right?
This is live stoler.
Family vineyards estate down in Dayton and
Yamhill County where the fog is still there.
It was a fog advisory this morning
and because of the fog much of the
Central Valley still in the 30s at this hour.
And we are watching an air quality,
air quality stagnation advisory.
More on what our air quality numbers are
coming up in just a little bit in our show,
partly cloudy over downtown,
46 degrees kind of right
where we thought we would be.
We're going to be getting it
looks like up into the upper 30s.
Look at the difference.
Portland Sunshine,
46 Fog and Salem Mcnary Field only 35.
The nice weather at the coast.
Look at the Dallas shooting all
the way up to 58 degrees again,
really quite a variance.
Everybody is dry minus any mist.
With the dense fog spots.
I have a swarming into the upper 40s.
Winds will continue to be light.
So coming up those air quality
numbers for you and the latest
on that much much much colder
air and snow chances coming in
this weekend in just a bit.