PORTLAND, Ore. — All available Portland Police units descended on the Old Town Neighborhood with lights flashing and sirens blaring when a small contingent of officers came under threat from a hostile crowd.
The policemen were trying to attend to a couple who had been shot in a parking lot after the closure of a nearby bar.
The incident occurred at 2.20 a.m. yesterday (Sunday) at Northwest Couch Street and Northwest 4th Avenue. Central Precinct officers were assigned to monitor a crowd of about 100 people who congregated in the parking lot…