Gresham, Oregon

From Portland’s KOIN.com of April 12, 2005

Gunfight Breaks Out In Street During Pot Robbery

Police are on the lookout for at least two suspects after shots rang out at the scene of a home invasion early Tuesday morning in Gresham.

It happened at a neighborhood near Southeast 176th and Division. After beating down a door, pistol whipping the homeowner and stealing his medical marijuana, the suspects were confronted by a neighbor with a gun.

You can see the bullet holes in siding and in windows, as well as chalk marks for the casings, left over from an early-morning gunfight between a group of armed suspects and the neighbor of a home they invaded.

"Kind of didn't feel right," the neighbor said.

The neighbor, who doesn't want to be identified, says his wife woke him up when she heard a crash. He grabbed his gun.

"I was toward the end of the driveway. They were running out at the end of that driveway. It was just the street length across from him. He was shooting right at me, so my instinct was to shoot back."
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The suspects are described as black males in dark clothing who got away running north on 176th, dropping pieces of the stolen marijuana plants as they went.

While the victim and his neighbor escaped serious injury, the gunmen may not be so lucky. That's because one of them may have been shot as they were running away.

One suspect is described as a black man, 30-35 years old, 6 feet tall, wearing dark clothing, a black knit cap and possibly a mustache. The other suspect, also a black man, age unknown. He's about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, wearing a puffy ski jacket with a hood. There may be other suspects.