Police arrest boy, 16, in connection with Portland park shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland police detectives arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with a July shootout in North Portland’s Peninsula Park.
Police officers took Jefferson High School student Malik Overton into custody while he was at school in study hall Tuesday afternoon. Officers said they found a handgun in his coat after they handcuffed him.
Police said on July 12, two suspects shot at a home near North Rosa Parks Way and Borthwick Avenue. The suspects ran into the Peninsula Park Community Center before leaving the area.
The community center was full of children attending summer camp at the time. No one inside was hurt.
Police took Overton to the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home. He faces charges of attempted murder, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in a public building.
A SWAT team arrested the other suspect, 20-year-old Teondre Bonner, at a motel in Lacey, Wash. on Aug. 2. He is still in the Multnomah County Jail and faces charges of attempted murder and unlawful use of a weapon.
Detectives believe more people were involved in the shootout and are still looking for witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Mitch Hergert at 503-823-2081.
Portland Parks and Recreation spokesman Mark Ross said they would hire more seasonal rangers, give summer playground staff two-way radios and install more cameras at community centers in the wake of the shooting.
Instead of passing judgement, let's help these people.Â
So, we take spanking away and this is what we get? How we have failed.
 @lee986321 Really? That's what you think happened here? These kids are thrown into the adult world while their parents work 2 or 3 jobs (if they're both around) just to survive in poverty. Unless you've gotten your hands dirty to actually HELP these underprivileged people, hold your presumptuous judgement. I'm afraid your ignorance may be contagious and draw from the REAL problems that make criminals of our kids.Â
When I was a 16 year old, which was over fifty years ago, a story like this would have shocked the entire
nation.  Now, an incident like this has become all too common. Something within the black culture in the
USA is failing. The role model for a black man in society today seems to be that of a criminal.
Black people have so much more opportunity today than in previous generations. Please, don't waste it.  Â
@Older than dirt It ain't just the blacks, kiddo. And it ain't "black culture," either. It is Latinos, Asians, you name it. Oh, and yes. Here's a shocker for you. WHITE kids (remember Kip Kinkle and Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and and and) go nuts too. Why don't you take a good look at the racist crap floating around in that little pea brain?
@Mechanic .......nice job of name calling. Grow up !
 @Mechanic  @Older Mechanic, I think you are proving the opposite of what you are trying to say without even knowing it. When white kids do it, it is still so rare and shocking we remember their names 15 years later. When black kids do it, it's so common that it will be gone from the news in half a day.Â
@moej @Older Right. Like there are no white gang bangers.
I really wish that the black community would speak out against gangs, violence and such. All their mouth pieces seem to do is come on the news when some dirtbag who happens to be black gets shot by the police.
@commonsense33 ......Sadly, its never going to happen. This isn't the black communitys fault. Its everybody elses fault. And the Reverends will blame everyone and everything under the sun all the while financially benefitting from exploiting the black community and allowing the black youth to die in the streets!
Sadly, what you have have said is not true. There have been plenty of community leaders, and everyday members of the community that have spoken out against gang violence, or violence of any kind. How would I know? I am a member of said community and have heard it with my own ears, and have spoken such words to the youth I encounter. It may not be newsworthy enough to make the front page of the Oregonian, or be a top story on a news website to reach those that have little or no contact with the community, but don't assume that the discussion has not been had.
 @kboogie78  @Rob C 503 I've worked with this student. He was a good person in my eyes. ...these people have no idea what it's like to live in this boy's shoes. *sigh*
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@kboogie78 .......oh and by the way, my respect and admiration for your time working with the youth. It can't be easy.
@kboogie78 ........this has to be out there in front of all of us. It's a horrible tragedy. I'm not talking about a press conference. Those are for saps. I'm talking about everyday people doing things everyday and the city publicizing that this is behavior that can't continue, here's the options, here's the expectations, here's the enforcement, here's the consequences. I'm not suggesting this is easy. But the black community will continue to suffer and it will only get worse.
 @Rob C 503 And a press conference will do what to solve the issues within the black community?Would it be so you can see it and feel like something is being done? To ease your mind perhaps? I prefer to spend my time working with the youth to help them make better decisions than this teen did.Â
@kboogie78 ...........for the sake of argument, lets say "the discussion has been had" as you suggest. It's falling on deaf ears or is ineffective. And if the discussion is being had you need to get it out all over Portland and use whatever media is available.
Hopefully he'll be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Sick and tired of these punks getting off the hook because they're just poor little children who didn't know what they were doing.
better ban guns, that will improve moral a lot according to anti gun wack-a-doos  oabamaites
@Zechariah Morale, not "moral." What is are "oabamaites?" Can you not even spell the name of the President?
 @Zechariah Another most useful and excellent comment, Z!
 @randola  @Zechariah Truth hurts, doesn't it?
 @Zechariah PS </sarcasm>
SPANK YOUR CHILDREN!
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Some of the most screwed-up people I've ever met were beaten viciously by their own parents. One was beaten so badly by his own father that he lost an eyeball. He ended up in prison for a double homicide. Draw your own conclusions.
 @Whobeke  @PDXBEAR Spanking is not beating.Â
 @PDXBEAR Yeah because nothing conveys denouncing violence like beating your children!
 @deejm2112  @PDXBEAR There is a line between discipline and abuse. I was spanked. My mom and dad grew up abused but I was never abused by either one of them.
 @deejm2112  @PDXBEAR I'm one of five sons, and i'm thankful that dad spanked us as often as he did. When it happened, it was NEVER a surprise. We each new darn well the result of our actions. More than once I remember each of us taunting the other to 'just jump one more time on the bed' til the loud voice would come from downstairs " get down here", and there we went and got spanked, we knew it was coming.
Schools do not need more money. Students need more parent(s).
@last boyscout that is a great comment.. best I have read. Sounds very true to me.
Gee. No surprise there. Let's see - Jefferson HS, guns = gangbangers. Typical for that neck of the woods anyway. Â
 @clg That area is actually a quite nice middle class area and that park is above just a park. Before you comment it would be nice if you actually knew the area that the story is about. Oh, and that "neck of the woods" isn't any worse than any other area. Crime isn't just in North Portland. It's everywhere. Oh, and I went to Jefferson High School and turned out pretty good. I received a wonderful well rounded education. Don't blame the school. Blame this boys parents for not raising him right.
Just about a guarantee that this low life was raised without his natural father around. Way too many baby daddies and boyfriends raising kids. Isn't our 'modern' version of a family great? Losers and gang bangers.Â
 @last boyscout My siblings and I were raised by a single mother, widowed at 34. She worked at whatever jobs she could get, saw that we went to school and took us to church, kept us in Scouts, 4-H and Camp Fire Girls. We never wondered who was in charge, or what would happen if we didn't do as we were told. All of us have graduated from college and owned our homes--retired now, in fact. Guess she didn't need to "find herself". She was never lost--always knew who she was: a mother with four children to raise. And yes, when we were younger, if we deserved it, we got spanked.
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Quite offensive to infer that a 'natural' father is the solution. I was adopted and turned out just fine thank you. I have a steady job, make a decent living, have a family, own a house and pay taxes. Oh, I also adopted two children. So by your conclusion, does that mean they will turn out bad? Very poor choice of words my friend. Out wait, your a 'boy scout' according to your handle, that just makes your completely prejudicial towards absolutely everyone. I suppose being adopted at birth makes my parents and family a 'modern' family. Watch where you throw your stones, quite sure you probably have a few issues tucked nicely away in your closet that makes your less than perfect like the rest of us
@MLB123 When you hint at or suggest something, you imply. If you understand the hint, you infer. In one instance, you misused "your." You should have used "you're," a contraction for "you are" or "you were." In another, you used "your" when you should have used "you." The word "issues" is plural. The verb you used ("makes") to go with it, is the singular form. Lastboyscout is a jackass, of course, but you should wait for those more erudite than you to rebut him.
A 16 year old who is being a accused of being involved in a shooting and who is carrying a handgun in school at the time of his arrest should not be referred to as a 'boy'. He is at best a 'teen'.
@oh4FS He is a Criminal.. Just as John Wesley HardinÂ
First killing
At the age of 15, Hardin challenged his uncle Holshousen's former slave, Mage, to a wrestling match which Hardin won.[3] According to Hardin, the following day, Mage hid by a path and attacked him as he rode past. Hardin drew his revolver and fired five shots into Mage. Hardin claims he then rode to get help for the wounded ex-slave (who died three days later). Because James Hardin did not believe his son would receive a fair hearing in the Union-occupied state (where more than a third of the state police were ex-slaves) he ordered his son into hiding (even though this event could have been deemed self-defense by contemporary Texas law).[3] Hardin claims that the authorities eventually discovered his location, and sent three Union soldiers to arrest him. Hardin said he chose to confront his pursuers despite having been warned of their approach by older brother, Joe.[11][12]
I waylaid them, as I had no mercy on men whom I knew only wanted to get my body to torture and kill. It was war to the knife for me, and I brought it on by opening the fight with a double-barreled shotgun and ended it with a cap and ball six-shooter. Thus it was by the fall of 1868 I had killed four men and was myself wounded in the arm.[8]Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hardin#First_killing
Billy The Kid William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty, Jr. c. November 23, 1859[1] â c. July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend, he killed 21 men,[2] but it is generally believed that he killed between four and nine.[2] He killed his first man at 18.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid
And then there are these...
http://listverse.com/top-10-young-killers/
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Not to mention Kip Kinkle  Kipland Philip "Kip" Kinkel (born August 30, 1982) is an American spree killer. In May 1998, at the age of 15, he murdered his parents and engaged in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon that left two students dead and 25 others wounded.[1] He is serving a 111-year sentence, without the possibility of parole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Kinkel
They all have one thing in Common They are all a Waste of space and Vermin.. Extermination is too good for them
Such a young age to be on such a bad path in life. I hope the authorities are able to apprehend the others they believe are involved.