Posted on 01/30/2014 9:20:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
One man from Tuesday night's downtown Portland shooting remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his leg, while the 40-year-old suspect is being treated for an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound to his testicles, police said Wednesday.
An apparent robbery attempt between the two men who were neighbors led to the shooting just before 8 p.m. in the parking lot of an apartment building in the 1400 block of Southwest Park Ave, police said.
During the dispute, the 40-year-old man pulled out a gun and shot the other man in the leg, police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said. The wounded 32-year-old man ran over to the Safeway on Southwest 10th Avenue and Columbia Street for help. He was later taken to the hospital with a leg injury.
As the suspect fled the scene, he accidentally shot himself in the groin, police said.
"The suspect's wound is consistent with somebody putting a gun in his pants," Simpson said Wednesday night.
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Thanks to Responsibility2nd for being on the ball with this story!
Poetic Justice; Thigh for Ball, or something like that.
I didn’t mean to laugh.
Well, the guy had balls, though he was a little nuts.
And you shouldn’t. Now that is testicle-less, he may run for a seat as a republicrat.
Ah, Portland...only Santa Cruz, CA is stranger.
somehow ...I got the impression that he had used a shotgun....which would have made the self inflicted wound fairly difficult..
I guess this is a second order effect Darwin Award.
some folks just shoot their mouth off
Didn’t even have to read to know it was a liberal nut job. Probably has a lot if friends that are a-holes too...: )
Portlandia fail.
Cocked UN-Locked and Docked and Cocked.
I can hear the ER convo now:
Doctor: so what happened?
Cop: he shot himself in the gonads doc.
Doctor: GET THE F*#K OUTA HERE!
Cop: Nope, no s*#t..thats what the moron did.
lol
Unbelievable. Are the gun makers going to have to put warning signs on the stock that says “Please point the weapon away from you...be careful if you want children.”
> I didn’t mean to laugh.
I did.
> Well, the guy had balls,
Past tense.
9th and Columbia
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