The Portland Police Bureau released a video summary of the September 24, 2026 officer-involved shooting in Southeast Portland, with unedited body-worn camera footage from the Portland officers included after the summary. This is the bureau’s video as released.
According to the bureau, at about 7:00 a.m. that Thursday, Gresham Police officers on a welfare check at a home in the 17900 block of Southeast Market Street in Gresham found the occupant dead. Detectives determined he had been shot with a .22 caliber handgun and identified a suspect.
Early that afternoon, investigators located the suspect, a 39-year-old man, in the area of Southeast 99th Avenue and Southeast Pine Street in Portland and requested help from the U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force, which includes Portland Police Bureau members.
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When task force members tried to take him into custody, he fled. The bureau says that at one point he tried to carjack a woman in a vehicle and was unsuccessful.
A Portland K9 officer sent his partner, K9 Kylo, off leash to apprehend him. In a nearby motel parking lot, Kylo took him to the ground. The bureau says he then produced a firearm, pointed it toward officers and ignored multiple commands to drop it.
Two Portland officers, a U.S. Marshal and a Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputy fired and struck him. K9 Kylo was also struck. Lifesaving efforts began a minute after the shooting, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene. The bureau says a .22 caliber firearm, the same caliber used in the Gresham homicide, was found next to him, and that he did not fire his weapon during the encounter.
Kylo was taken to two animal hospitals, where, in consultation with an emergency veterinarian, the decision was made to euthanize him. The bureau says Kylo died after he was unintentionally injured by police gunfire. He served nearly seven years and was credited with 139 captures.
The bureau says the two Portland officers remain on administrative leave, which is standard protocol. The case is undergoing criminal, policy and procedure, and training reviews, will go before the Police Review Board, and the Chief will determine whether it was within policy.
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