- Benjamin Brink—The Oregonian
- Part of the memorial for Andre Payton, 19.
Andre Payton, 19, was found with a gunshot wound in his chest just after 2 AM, according to media reports—struck after a gunbattle erupted in a crowd near NW 2nd and Couch. Payton was taken to OHSU Hospital, where he later died.
News of the shooting—along with another one this weekend in North Portland—harked back to a similar outburst of violence this summer. After that series of shootings (and perhaps to answer some criticism), Mayor Sam Adams rolled out a list of strict new gun restrictions that he hoped would put the clamps on precisely this kind of senselessness.
The final version of the proposals was supposed to emerge by the end of this month. But with the end of the month is only a few days away, there's still no sign of the package on the City Council's docket. So I called the mayor's spokesman, Roy Kaufmann, for an update.
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