This is KG W News at Sunrise.
This is my baby, baby, baby brother.
You know, I'm just something
like this is just beyond me. This
morning we have more information
about a young man shot to death
over the weekend in Portland.
We spoke with some of his brothers
who say they still don't understand
how this happened. Plus we want.
People from everywhere on all
demographics to come and enjoy themselves.
Yeah, that is an open invitation to a new
pickleball court in Northeast Portland.
And that's not the only activity available
when you can get in on the games coming
up this morning in 15 minutes plus.
Oh, we had to take you outside
on this beautiful April morning,
Portland's living room.
Very quiet right now,
but you can bet it's going to be
bustling later today with folks out
there on the brick soaking up the sun.
Good Thursday morning, everybody.
The weather so nice.
We called in two
meteorologists this morning.
I mean, it's really hard.
You got a lot to figure out here.
Will it be 80? Will it not be 80?
So we really had to put our best
men on it. It's so embarrassing
because we're so out of practice with
forecasting warm weather that no, we we
both came in.
I mean, I'll be your Drew,
Cardi this morning. Exactly.
Drew and Christine are off.
So we called in Chris for
double duty. You're going
to be helping me out with the news
this morning, but. You are the star
of the show with that forecast.
Yeah. Yesterday, 77 in the Rose City,
we had forecasted 75 and today on
paper looks like it has to be at least
a couple if not 3 degrees warmer.
And that puts us up to an
expected high temperature of 80.
It is very to me, June like out there
this morning when you step outdoors,
a lot of you waking up with
temperatures of 50 or better,
the airports at 54, we'll go 66 at noon.
Yesterday it was 62 at noon
and we'll go right around 80.
For a high temperature,
it still looks like tomorrow is going
to be the warmest of the week and
that seven day forecast is coming up.
Thank you Rod. This morning we
know more about the man shot and
killed in a Southeast Portland
business over the weekend and how
his murder is connected to another
deadly shooting Monday night.
Zachary Freeman was 29 years old
and leaves behind a big family,
including three brothers.
Mike Benner spoke with them about
their sudden loss.
And how new details about the
case are weighing heavily on them.
Like we would have never expected anything
like this happen a million years. You know,
Isaac Wilson still can't believe it's real,
it being the shooting death of his
little brother, Zachary Freeman.
You know, this is my baby, baby,
baby brother, you know, and just
something like this is just beyond me.
Zachary was shot and killed Sunday morning
inside a business near SE 52nd and Foster.
Family says detectives have shared
very little about the shooting.
There's so many different
scenarios that play in my head
that what could it lead up to?
And I just want to get some closure.
But getting that closure will be difficult,
if not impossible with Zachary's
suspected killer also dead.
Police shot and killed that person
during a pursuit on SE 82nd Ave.
late Monday night. Me
Truthfully, I told the family I'd
rather have seen the guy's face
and put him behind bars. You know,
I don't wish death on anybody. What
family does wish for is
more time with Zachary, who,
according to another brother,
was a remarkable human being.
So when you think of Zachary
Michael Freeman, you think of love,
life, family, respect, honor.
Integrity, a sentiment echoed by all
of Zachary's surviving brothers. We
always brought something.
He brought Lovejoy Peace.
I'm Mike Benner for KG W News.
Crime Stoppers is now offering a reward
for information about a shooting
that killed three young men in
broad daylight late last month.
Around noon on March 25th,
police say several suspects ran up to a
car near North Foss Court and Foss Ave.
They fired several rounds into the car,
killing two teenagers as Kendra,
Tamra and Babu Dowdy,
a 20 year old man, also died.
According to witnesses,
the suspects ran to a parked
car and then drove away.
The two teens were students at
Franklin and Roosevelt high schools.
So far no one has been arrested.
Crime Stoppers is offering a
cash reward of up to $2500 for
information about this shooting.
More than 20 years ago,
a group of teenagers who became known
as the Redman Five were convicted of
killing 52 year old Barbara Thomas.
They each got life in prison,
but two are now being released early.
Their sentences were commuted
by Governor Kate Brown in 2021.
As Alma McCarty reports,
one of them could walk free tomorrow.
More than 20 years ago in Redmond,
5 teens including Barbara Thomas's own son,
brutally killed the 52 year old woman.
They beat her with a bottle
and shot her in the head.
At the time, prosecutors told reporters,
the group had several ideas on how to kill.
Her indictment alleges in one fashion,
electrocution in another
fashion by injecting Mr.
Thomas with a bleach.
Canadian immigration officers arrested
the teens the next day as they attempted
to cross the border in the victim's car.
All 5 faced nearly two dozen felony counts,
from aggravated murder to
assault and robbery.
At that time, Measure 11 imposed mandatory
minimum sentences for serious crimes.
Regardless of age,
for aggravated murder that meant
a minimum of life in prison.
We believe that all five of the
individuals were substantially
responsible for the murder of Mrs.
Thomas, and all five were convicted.
But in 2019, the law changed.
In Oregon,
teenagers are no longer automatically
charged as adults for Measure 11 crimes.
So in 2021,
Governor Kate Brown commuted their sentences,
along with many others,
and parole became a possibility.
Now,
in 2023,
two of those responsible for the
Thomas murder are on the way out.
Justin
Link was the person who first
suggested that the Group of
Five murder Barbara Thomas,
and ultimately he is the one
who told his companions to.
Finished the job and to kill Barbara Thomas.
Justin Link, 17, at the time of the crime,
now nearing 40, will be released Friday.
I think it was the correct
legal decision because the
parole board was tasked with
assessing whether or not Mr.
Link has been rehabilitated.
And I think there's no real
question that he has been.
After a parole board hearing last week,
Seth Koch was also granted early release.
He will get out of prison mid June.
As for the other three, Lucretia,
Karl was released in 2021.
A parole board hearing is
set for Ashley Summers.
Next week and Adam Thomas,
who was eighteen at the time of the murder,
could be eligible for parole
in a couple of years.
Alma McCarty, KGW News
Now to a few more headlines
we're tracking. This morning.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's
Office is searching for a 78 year
old man named Carol Parkins.
We've got a picture on your screen.
His family says he left home
Saturday morning to look for deer
and elk antlers in the woods,
but never returned.
Family later found his
truck off Molalla Forest Rd.
The Sheriff's Office launched
a rescue mission and have
been searching for four days.
They're asking for anyone who may
have seen Parkins to give them a call.
A Proud Boys member found guilty
of assault and riot charges will
be sentenced this afternoon.
Tusitala tiny Tosi was convicted
of inciting and participating in a
brawl back in 2021 in East Portland,
reports show.
Tosi stood in a truck bed,
made transphobic remarks and called
the Proud Boys members charged for
storming the US Capitol on January 6th.
Political prisoners.
A judge found him guilty on 10
different counts in early March.
And Portland City Council approved a
policy for police body cameras on Wednesday.
The police union reached an agreement
with the city earlier this week
after months of negotiations.
They decided officers won't be
allowed to watch the body camera
video before writing a report in
any serious use of force case.
However,
in incidents where no one is seriously hurt,
officers will be allowed to watch
the video after their initial
statement and then update the report.
And those are your morning headlines.
Okay,
You guys take a look at this.
I know you are going to love it.
I mean, who wants to stay
indoors when the weather?
This is this nice.
So Sunrise photographer Eric
Patterson is on Savvy Island.
He's got a little fire pit by the river.
He does have Full disclosure,
a home on Savvy Island, a floating home.
So he is living large.
That is my kind of remote work.
You don't have to go very far.
What's the temperature outside?
Do you even need a little fire?
A lot of the area is holding at
50 or slightly better. There are
some spots down to about 46. That's
good. Chilly. I got to say, man,
I went out for my run yesterday
afternoon and this is how
miserable the spring has been.
I was overheating on that 77
degrees sunny run yesterday.
I played golf yesterday
and I must say it was just perfect,
that it wasn't really sweating.
It was absolutely just comfortable.
I know mid 70s are wonderful,
but what about today?
Today I should be on on paper.
I like to say at least two to three degrees
warmer in many spots than it was yesterday,
so we'll see how far we go.
These were the highs yesterday,
some of them Portland and Hillsboro,
each at 77. Again, for Portland, it was
the first time we've cracked 70 this year.
Salem, Kelso Battleground 75,
Tratto Scapoo 78,
the warmest in the metro area.
Mcminnville did 76,
and out in Sandy it was 73.
And again, I think most of us would
be at least a couple degrees warmer.
Today weather pattern is a warm 1,
high pressure building northward,
the storm track arcing well around us.
We have a little bit of cloudiness.
I think it's thin stuff for the most
part spilling across Eastern Washington,
Eastern Oregon this morning.
Here are the numbers Brenda was asking about.
A lot of us are in the 50s.
It is 48 and Gresham Sandy's down to 46.
Up in Scappoose, it's 48 degrees right now.
Mcminnville sharing that number.
Salem's at 54, but Kaiser's at 49 degrees.
And everything is about the
temperatures right now,
right 39 in Newport, that's chilly.
That that needs a fire.
If you're outside,
there's 46 in Bend and 42 out in Baker City,
okay.
So we've been telling you that tomorrow
will be the warmest of the bunch,
and in part because the east wind will
start to pick up out of the gorge.
Not horrendously windy,
but our Futurecast models are noon tomorrow,
so coming out of the gorge,
sustained winds.
Gusting to about 26 miles prior could
be some gusts between 25 and then
maybe as high as 40 and some of those
usual windy areas in the West gorge.
This is primarily going to
be a north Valley wind.
Notice it shows Salem just a
light north wind tomorrow,
but that E wind tomorrow will be
enough to provide warming temperatures
potentially 80 degrees or 82 along parts
of mainly the North Coast by Saturday.
The beach is still dry if you're thinking
about getting away for the warm weather.
It'll start to cool down 62 to
maybe 70 in some spots on Sunday.
We have 50s in the shower so don't
really have any changes to the
forecast we've been sharing with you.
Upper 70s today in the valley,
winds will be generally light and
then we have 76 in Longview but 79 in
battleground and I think Portland and
Vancouver have a chance to get up to 80.
If we don't make it will be
78 or 79 tomorrow.
Record high with the east wind of 86,
still 80 on Saturday and Sunday.
Shower chance still doesn't look to be much,
so I've been saying.
Maybe your plans aren't in that
bad of shape for Sunday afternoon.