This is KGW News at 11.
We begin tonight
with gun violence
in Salem, including
a man threatening people with the
gun and officers being shot at.
Thank you for joining us.
I'm Blair Best two people are in jail
tonight, including a 13 year old girl.
It all started Saturday night at 10:15.
When a man waved a gun at people
in a parking lot at Riverfront Park
when police got there, he was gone.
Now, witnesses said he took
off in a black pickup truck.
About 20 minutes later,
officers responded to a fight involving a
large group of people in another parking lot,
this time at a Safeway.
When officers got there,
the suspect and others took
off in a black pickup truck.
It was the same truck believed to be
involved in the incident at Riverfront Park.
Now soon after the driver,
33 year old Martine Andrew Gonzalez,
crashed into two different cars on Marion St.
NE.
Now it's unclear how many people were
involved in the crashes or their conditions,
but they were all taken to the hospital.
A gun and a high capacity magazine
were found in Gonzalez's truck.
He was arrested and faces several charges
including felon in possession of a firearm.
A 13 year old girl was also in
the truck and arrested.
Also in Salem and just about 3 hours ago,
a Marion County Sheriff's
patrol vehicle was shot at.
It happened just before 8:00 this
evening as deputies were driving by
the intersection of Lancaster Drive
Northeast and Devonshire Court.
No one was injured.
The incident is being investigated and we'll
bring you more details as we learn more.
Well, tonight Gresham Police are asking for
your help finding a missing 13 year old.
Amar Deweese was last seen
around 8:00 AM on April 29th.
He's been staying at the New Avenues for
Youth Rockwood Campus on SE 165th Ave.
Amar is described as a black male.
He is 5 foot tall and weighs 160
pounds and has short black hair.
He sometimes goes by the last name Nylon.
Anyone with information is asked
to contact Gresham police.
Well,
the family of the man who died
in a Northwest Portland shooting
on Friday is asking for answers.
It happened on NW 17th and Irving Street.
When officers got there they
found two people injured.
James Rogers Junior and another woman.
Now medics tried to revive
James but he died at the scene.
The woman was taken to the hospital
with non life threatening injuries.
As of tonight,
nobody has been arrested in this case.
That's honestly what I want people
to know, like say something like
we still out here with the killer.
That don't make no sense.
James was the oldest of five siblings.
His brothers and sisters describe
him as an excellent writer and artist
who loved his family and daughter.
Well, three teens are in custody
after fleeing from police in
downtown Portland last night.
Officers initially responded to a
report of a stolen car at gunpoint
in Vancouver just after 1:00 AM.
They were able to find the
car by using G PS:.
And ended up in Portland on SW 5th and Hall.
Now that's when the three suspects ran off.
One of them tripped and a
gun fell out of his pocket.
Officers arrested all three suspects,
a 16 year old and two 7.
17 year olds are now behind bars
and they each face several charges.
In Washington,
the Tacoma Police Department held
its first Gun Give Back event.
They collected 140 unwanted guns,
making the community feel a little safer.
Cornelius Hawker explains the
reasoning behind the event.
Old Model 6 Remington.
Wow, that's an older run.
Tacoma Police Chief Avery Moore talks about
the importance of today's gun give back.
We're serious about safety.
We recognize that.
We do have to do it collaboratively,
So the more people that participate,
the better and safer it is
for the community. Chief
Moore knows it's a way to address one of
the City of Tacoma's most pressing issues.
As you know, we've had an
uptick in youth. Violence
in 2023, five teenagers have
been shot and killed in Tacoma.
KING5 has covered these stories,
this alarming trend falling in
line with this sobering statistic.
According to the CDC,
firearm gun violence is the number
one leading cause of death for
children in America right now.
Lindsay Finney is with the Children's
Advocacy Center at Mary Bridge.
The organization partnered with
TPD for the Gun Give Back.
She says it's a relief to see
many people willingly give away
unwanted guns to prevent that harm.
It's great.
I mean, the community is coming
together to help keep kids safe.
Rick Frederick is one of many
people who gave back guns.
He hopes others choose to take
part in events like this to try
and keep the community safe.
Problem with guns as we speak.
So it's a very good thing
to get them off the street.
With every gun that we get off the street
potentially is a life that we saved.
Well, tonight we're seeing a new
footage of the tornado that ripped
through eastern Florida this weekend.
Videos show cars being flipped upside
down with people still inside them,
but miraculously, no one was killed.
NBC's Sam Brock is in
Florida with the latest.
You know, that
is a tornado only. The
sheer terror of spotting
a tornado in Palm Beach County,
Florida came in many forms,
with one man watching debris and
tree limbs fly before this car
lifted off. I hope this stops
Daphne Nikolopoulos also surviving
hard pounding seconds on the highway
when this happened in front of her.
Oh my God, what were
you seeing through your windshield?
The wind just got stronger and
stronger and then we saw the funnel
touchdown and those two cars.
Got picked up by the wind and
just kind of flipped over.
Cars still stacked up today in a
Palm Beach Gardens parking lot,
feet from where John Nobrenski lives.
What did it sound like?
Like somebody's throwing.
Huge concrete blocks at the windows,
the ripped roofs and damaged homes,
the results of an EF2 tornado
with 130 mile an hour winds.
Well, the house was shaking.
Everything was really fast though
for families living on this street,
like 12 year old Felipe
Herrera and his mom Miriam.
And there's a lot of wind, a lot of,
you know, that car is like this.
Miriam showing us what happened
to her dad whose car flipped over
several times with him inside.
Though he's unharmed across the street,
Boom, go down.
Juan Rodriguez says his wife
left the kitchen seconds
before their ceiling collapsed.
Do you consider
that a blessing that she wasn't in
the kitchen when that happened?
Yeah, this is seconds. Wow.
Well, nothing like that
happening here in Portland,
but we are seeing a change in our weather.
Meteorologist Joe Ranieri joins
us from the weather center.
And Joe, what can we expect
this week? Yeah, we're
going to be seeing some cool and
cloudy conditions heading into Monday.
But speaking more of the tornado
that hit in Eastern floor,
I don't think I've ever seen video
like that where the tornado actually
picked up a couple of cars, but,
you know, absolutely wild to see.
But yeah, Blair,
we're going to be seeing some cool
and cloudy conditions as we head into
the first couple of days of May.
But by Tuesday and Wednesday,
things will warm up a little bit.
I want to take out to the
the satellite and radar.
We are going to be seeing some
increasing clouds Now there is a a
weak disturbance that's going to be
bringing in some cloudy conditions
and some light sprinkles and drizzle
similar to what we saw earlier today is
what's in store heading into tomorrow.
So for Futurecast tomorrow morning,
most of the precipitation and
it's going to be light throughout
the coast in the valley will be
falling along the Oregon coast.
But late tomorrow afternoon
and in the evening hours,
if you're near the Cascades,
yeah, you're going to be.
Seeing a slight chance for some
thunderstorms develop again,
that chance of thunderstorms will
still be in the forecast heading
into parts of Tuesday and Wednesday,
kind of a typical spring forecast
and coming up in my detail forecast
in about 10 minutes from now.
I'll talk more about how this spring so
far is mirroring last springs as well.
Talk about that in just a few minutes.
All right, Joe, sounds good.
Well, we have an update on two
stolen American Bulldogs in Gresham.
Police say they were found
and returned to their owner.
They went missing yesterday around 3:30 in
the afternoon on Southeast Stark Street.
They escaped an apartment while the
dog sitter was taking out the trash.
Kids at the apartment complex saw
them get into a white Audi sedan.
Now police did not say where
or how they found the dogs.
Well, now to a traffic alert.
I5 S on the lower deck of the Markham Bridge
is closed this evening for inspection.
That closure goes through
five tomorrow morning.
Drivers will have to detour
onto I-405 S until then.
The 2023 Portland Crop Hunger
Walk happened downtown today.
These walks are community based
fundraising events held across the USA.
Group of Portlanders started
their walk at First Christian
Church at Southwest Park Ave.
Now this year's crop Walk was
to raise awareness and money for
millions of people across the US
that are in need of food assistance.
Donations from this walk in Portland
will go to the Northeast Emergency
Food Program in the Cully neighborhood.
Around Portland and around
the country, we see a significant
increase in the number
of people who are
seeking food assistance right now.
And so the need the head
of the Oregon Food Bank
is that is is generationally
significant. We haven't seen
this level of hunger
and food insecurity before.
The crop project began in 1947 when
farmers were asked to donate food and
seed crops to our hungry neighbors in
post World War Two, Europe and Asia.
The mission remains the same today.