Key Toss Turns To Gunfire As Portland Couple Nabbed In N Willis Blvd Shooting

What started as a simple key toss out a second-floor window ended with a man bleeding from a gunshot wound and a married couple in handcuffs after a multi-day search through Portland.

What Happened

Just after 4 a.m. Sunday, Portland Police Bureau officers responded to reports of gunfire at an apartment complex on North Willis Boulevard in the Kenton neighborhood. When they arrived, they found a man at a second-floor window with a gunshot wound to his arm, bleeding heavily.

The victim told investigators he had been leaning out of his apartment window to throw a key down to a friend on the sidewalk when he was shot. Officers applied a tourniquet at the scene, and medics rushed him to a hospital, where he is expected to recover.

Detectives identified 35-year-old Tony McDonald as a suspect and said he had been living illegally in a vacant unit at the complex, according to FOX 12. Neighbors had called police after the gunfire, and authorities launched a search for McDonald that stretched over several days…

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