Portland, Oregon: Man Critically Injured in Shooting on Northwest Naito Parkway in Old Town

A man was taken to a hospital with life threatening injuries after a shooting late on Tuesday night on Northwest Naito Parkway in Portland's Old Town neighborhood, Portland police said. Officers from the Central Precinct responded at 11:19 p.m. on November 10 to a report of a shooting in the 800 block of Northwest Naito Parkway. When they arrived, they found the critically injured adult man on a walkway. Paramedics responded and took him to a hospital, the Portland Police Bureau said in a release published on Wednesday morning.

Homicide detectives at the scene

The suspect or suspects left the scene before police arrived, and no immediate arrests were made, police said. Because the man's injury was severe and life threatening, detectives from the Portland Police Detective Division Homicide Unit responded to the scene. Police stressed in the release that the investigation is ongoing. The Homicide Unit response reflects the severity of the injury described by police. It is not, in the release, an announcement that the man has died, and police gave no update on his condition on Wednesday beyond the life threatening description.

KXL reported the same account from police and put the shooting just south of the Broadway Bridge, at about 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday. The radio station reported that homicide detectives are investigating due to the nature of the crime, matching the bureau's own release.

Road closed overnight, open by morning

The shooting closed Northwest Naito Parkway overnight. KXL reported that the parkway, between the Steel Bridge and the Broadway Bridge, reopened at about 6:15 a.m. on Wednesday. That stretch sits in the Old Town area named in the police release, on the same 800 block where officers found the man on the walkway. Drivers who use the parkway between those two bridges faced the closure through the night hours, and the road was back open for the Wednesday morning period covered in the KXL report.

What police have not said, and how to reach detectives

Police have not released the man's name or age. The release does not describe a suspect, does not say how many people were involved beyond referring to a suspect or suspects, and does not give a motive or say what led to the shooting. No arrest had been announced in either the police release or the KXL report on Wednesday.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Portland police at [email protected] or call 503-823-0479, and to reference case number 26-327027, the bureau said.