A Washington County judge has sentenced a Beaverton man to 20 years in prison for killing his wife inside their apartment, a drug-fueled shooting that left a neighborhood stunned and a young family destroyed.
On Tuesday, Washington County Circuit Judge Theodore Sims handed down the 20-year term to 20-year-old Talon G. Mitchell after he pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, according to OregonLive. Sims said Mitchell will receive credit for time he has already served in custody and could qualify for sentence reductions for good behavior during the second half of his term. The plea deal brought an end to earlier murder and weapons charges that stemmed from the February 2023 killing.
Beaverton police say officers were sent for a welfare check on the night of Feb. 23, 2023, to a third-floor apartment in the 1050 block of SW 160th Avenue. Inside, they found 24-year-old Oulaykham Mona Chopheng slumped over on a black leather couch with a shotgun wound to the face. Detectives arrested her husband, then 19-year-old Talon Gabriel Mitchell, early the next morning and initially booked him on charges of murder and unlawful use of a weapon, according to a Beaverton Police Department news release. Investigators later compiled an affidavit that prosecutors used as the backbone of the eventual manslaughter plea…