Tualatin Shooting: 2 Dead, 2 Others Injured In Suburban Portland Shooting (VIDEO)

UPDATE 7:45PM: Tualatin Police Chief Kent Barker told HuffPost that the male shooter was in a relationship with the female victim, who worked at Legacy MetroLab where the shooting occurred. The shooter, who has not been identified by name, perpetrated the murder-suicide with a rifle, injuring two bystanders.

Both bystanders are employees of Legacy MetroLab, which primarily processes drugs tests for employers according to a Legacy spokeswoman. One, a woman in her twenties, has been taken to Emanual Hospital with a non-life threatening injury, according to Barker. The other, a male age 63, suffered a gunshot wound and was helicoptered to Oregon Health & Science University hospital in Portland which has an advanced trauma center.

Reporting by HuffPost citizen journalist M.S. Bellows in Tualatin, Oregon.

The Associated Press
A man opened fire with a rifle Tuesday at a drug-testing laboratory in suburban Portland, killing one woman and wounding two other people before fatally shooting himself, police said. The shooter and the female victim were not immediately identified.

The shooting took place at Legacy Metrolab, a drug testing facility in Tualatin (pronounced Too-ALL-a-tin), a middle-class community of more than 26,000 located 13 miles from Portland. Tualatin is the site of the practice facility for the Portland Trail Blazers.

"There were people running all over the place when the officers first responded," Tualatin Police Chief Kent Barker. "It was pretty chaotic at first."

One of the wounded was taken to Emanual Hospital, while the other was flown to Oregon Health & Science University hospital in Portland, police said. Their conditions were not available.

Witnesses said a woman in a bloodied lab coat ran into a nearby Subway sandwich shop after the shooting.

Alina Kurtavenao, who works at the Subway, said the woman had blood on a leg and on her forehead.

"She wasn't crying, she wasn't scared. I think she was in shock," she said.

Legacy MetroLab conducts drug and alcohol testing for employers and others, according to company spokeswoman Kathleen Gorman.

"There were probably six people working there," said Travis Bonser, a teller at a Chase Bank across the street. "It's just a regular lab."

The Tigard-Tualatin School District was in lockdown following the shooting at Legacy MetroLab, which was reported at 11:48 a.m.

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Comments

[tonyspdx]

I live in Portland. Gun crime is very low in this city, but it does happen. For all the gun hatters out there, maybe she would be alive if she had one. Food for thought? All this ranting over "guns should be banned" is ridiculous. Most of the anti gun people have never been put in a situation where they feared for their lives. It’s easy to make a comment about something you have no idea about. You are a vocal minority. If you think Europe has so many more freedoms just stand on the corner of a London street and count how many cameras are pointing at you. Walk down a Manchester street at night and hope that you don't get knifed or shot, yes I said shot. The European news is fooling you into thinking that their continent is so safe, but it’s not. European gun crime is on the rise while gun crime in the USA is on the decline (rape is on the increase in the USA, women need to be able to protect themselves). If you don't believe me just look at the current FBI stats, but if you are so blinded by ideological biased, these stats will be just regarded are nonsense.

Yes, bad things do happen, but they are declining, you could chalk this up to almost anything, but I do know that when you make an unequal situation equal, then things will work out for the best.

[leeclayton]

Your "food for thought" is as substantive as a bag of Cheetos.

[Josh Seipp]

Maybe, but she'd be alive for sure if the shooter DIDN'T have one.

[tonyspdx]

Do you really think that NOT having a gun would have prevented this crime. A person set on comitting murder will accomplish that goal. And taking away the gun would only have pushed them to another method. Tell the thousands of dead victims from knives (First leading cause of violent death in the world, not guns). I guess if there were no knives she might be alive, that kind of thinking is not the solution. Please come back to reality. The only way to stop a killer is at the point of contact, to be on the good side of a gun. A gun in not tool to kill, its a tool to stay alive.

[bwenston42]

United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) The Court cannot take judicial notice that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, and therefore cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a weapon.
This could also include, and in my mind does, assault rifles, bombs, any type of automatic weapon, tanks or what ever the NRA thinks should falls under the 2nd amendment. Strong comprehensive gun control, using United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) as a standard, now.

[frnd74]

Guns kill people. And yes, people kill people. But people with guns kill far more people. Take Canada for example - most people don't own a gun, and the vast majority that do, own hunting rifles and use them for hunting deer, moose, etc. According to Statistics Canada, in 2008, there were 611 homicides in the entire country for the entire year. Of those, 200 were fire-arm related (so around 30%). In 2008, the FBI recorded 14 137 murders in the US, of those, 71% were fire-arm related. Canada's population: 33,000,000. US population: 300,000,000. So, doing the math, the murder rate in the US is over double that in Canada, and the fire-arms related murder rate in the US is 5X that in Canada. Are guns the problem? Well, if you exclude fire-arms related killings from both country's stats, the murder rates between the two countries gets a whole lot closer - so it's not that Americans kill at much higher rates, it's that Americans with guns kill at much higher rates.

[CaliGrown78]

This country has fell off smh.....

[wernerholm]

Drug Testing is a direct violation of your right to live free of searches.... too bad the founding fathers did not have the foresight to ban private persons from searching others without warrant....

[lovestoread]

GUNS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!! How many innocent people have to die first?

[ICorpsDoc]

Guns are a public health problem in this country (USA) and should be treated that way.

Drunk driving is also a public health problem. We do not make cars or booze illegal.

There are sensible steps that can be taken to reduce gun violence. But for so many any attempt at control is seen as an attack on the 2nd.

[MadHeart]

Women are taking the brunt of violence in this country. Domestic violence is increasing at an alarming rate. I was dismissed for cause from a murder trial jury by the defense yesterday because I admitted I didn't know if I could be impartial, stemming from my own experience of being kidnapped at knifepoint by 2 men and sexually assaulted--and that happened 45 yrs ago. Most times, I simply bury it in my mind, but I had to be honest about how I felt about someone who was charged with brutally taking the life of a woman he just didn't respect as a human being. Another woman also expressed a similar feeling and was also dismissed. The victim was a sheriff's deputy who had the misfortune of being the roommate of this creature's girlfriend; he allegedly shot her before she could even think of defending herself. I'm a retired paralegal and would have been an excellent juror in sorting fact and law, but my emotional connection to a long ago event and having to recount it prevented me from serving.

Men have a lot of work to do on their own thinking and behavior if women are ever going to achieve equality in this country. Women don't hate men--even crime statistics prove that--most women kill trying to protect themselves. My experience didn't turn me against men, just the violence they perpetrate on women every day. They don't have to be predators--they choose to be.

[pallmallguy]

I think guns are far more evil than atomic weapons

[mackbolan]

how does a gun become evil....what other inanimate objects do you consider evil.....

[getoffthecross]

Oreos. Oh, and speaking strictly for my wife, control-top pantyhose.

[leeclayton]

I think that after the week you gun rights advocates have had, you should try to come up with something a little more impactful than that tired old chestnut.

[Josh Seipp]

Why does a gun exist, except to cause harm?

[VivaZapata]

and now our special segment: MASS SHOOTER OF THE DAY.

[elbzee]

Here comes another HuffPo Big Page! The frequency with which these shootings is happening is alarming, to say the least. It speaks volumes about America's psyche.

[lode runner]

Fascinating.

A murder suicide in a "middle class" neighborhood. Shocking, national news huh?

Does anybody realize how many murders there are in the typical American ghetto every month, how many innocent bystanders caught up in drug turf wars?

Are any of them national news?

Isn't it fascinating which stories we choose to care about as a society, and which we don't.

Sometimes the real America just shines right through, doesn't it?

[mackbolan]

actually its only about 37 people a day across the nation...or less than one person per state per day......so if we are talking about shear numbers we have to look at the big picture...there are 90 guns for every 100 people...3­00,000,000­+ people with at least 250,000,000 guns....and less than one person per day per state is involved directly in a gun death...seem like a pretty good record to me considering what it could be...

[VivaZapata]

are you saying that we're spoon fed propaganda instead of news?

[mackbolan]

i am saying that the news is selective in what it reports...

[elbzee]

Now hush, and eat up!!!!

[CologneCitizen]

The majority of Americans worships guns and the gun culture. The 2nd amendment, the NRA and the self defense mentality gives them enough reasons not to leave home without it. You are still a young country. Some day you will evolve to other nations which have learned it its much safer to live without them unless you need them professionally.

Until you will have to live with the fact of the highest death toll among comparable countries, no more no less. You live in a free society and elect your representatives like we do in Europe. They will know what kind of health insurance you deserve or if the gun culture should end or not.

[lode runner]

It is a matter of evolution.

America is often a bit like the ancient Neanderthal, yearning to become human.

The Neanderthal went extinct though.

[CologneCitizen]

Yeah, probably. Always amazes me when these news occur and people discuss it like it was the first incident. Never touching the root of the issue.

[mikesw]

"The majority of Americans worships guns and the gun culture."

I disagree quite strongly. Most Americans believe that some form of gun control is necessary for a functioning society. The debate is about the nature of this gun control.

Because gun ownership is protected in the US Constitution and because a relatively small, but very well funded and effective gun rights advocacy group exists, the debate among politicians gets skewed. That's all.

[mackbolan]

you call 80 million gun owners a small group huh....

[ABSORB]

you can't have freedom without guns

[mikesw]

you can't have freedom without the latest machineguns

[patrickgarret]

The UK isn't free? What a STUPID comment.

[ABSORB]

Well go live in the UK and see how free you really are. I guess you call having camera's track your every move freedom

[Josh Seipp]

Thank goodness the Chinese invented freedom along with gunpowder.

[Measy23]

Terrorist! Oh wait... he was not Muslim enough for us to call him a terrorist! My mistake. He was just an crazed angry bad man.

[AndyWright68]

Guns exist. Get a gun!

I wish guns did not exist. If there was a way to eliminate every gun on the planet permanently I would be thrilled. Since that is impossible; I will always be prepared to defend my life and my family.

Get a gun. Take a class. Get your concealed carry permit. Never leave home without it.

[Gin1234]

I've been "leaving home without it", for 53 years, and have never been in a situation where I wished I had one with me, or needed one at all. The gun lovers have to go to all extremes and imagine all kinds of danger to justify carrying a gun. In Florida and Oregan, there isn't a single thing that could have been done if the whole world was armed at those moments when those particular gun nuts went mad.

[mackbolan]

then why do the police carry guns...what is that old saying..."better to have and never need it than to need it and not have it"...lots of people never have car accidents or get speeding tickets..it does not prove that other people are also accident free...

[KIVPossum]

I've been leaving home without it over 60 years. When the day comes I am so afraid I have to carry a weapon with me to the grocery store, it's time to check out of life.

[AndyWright68]

40 Years and no accident. Why am I forced to carry auto insurance? Duh!

[FHTB]

Vigilantism may have been OK in shoot 'em up Old West...we don't live in that era, and that mentality causes more problems than it solves...stupid logic.

[AndyWright68]

Has nothing to do with being a vigilante and everything to do with being prepared.

[Jolimont]

Actually it's the opposite. Grow some courage, don't get a gun, and try to persuade your neighbors they don't need one either. Only people who are afraid feel the need for a gun. If you were confident in yourself and in your country/community you wouldn't need a gun at all. Places like Afghanistan, maybe they need a gun cause they are all crazy over there, but in America?!

[mackbolan]

except for the fact that i might want to hunt....or shoot clay targets...

[AndyWright68]

Cowards are scared of owning guns. You should get some courage and get one before you regret not being able to protect yourself or someone you love.

[mikesw]

Shooting a gun is idiotically simple. Even a child can do it. But knowing how to react under certain violent, armed situations is another thing entirely. Unfortunately, the vast majority of gun owners who buy a weapon for "home protection" have little to no situational training. Simply owning a gun and "taking a class" won't make you safer. But if you suffer from chronic fear, maybe it will make you feel better about yourself...

[AndyWright68]

The class I meant was on how to react not just shoot. Most people don't need a "class" on how to shoot. That's pretty self evident. They go over that at the counter, takes 2 minutes. The classes are meant to train people on the use and the laws.

[the964kid]

Yeah that'll help. LOL.

[AndyWright68]

Help what? Are those gang tats?

[PSOM]

And yet not one mention of GUN CONTROL in the media this week.

USA must adopt strict laws and take away people guns. Europe has it figured out.

[I-know]

Never gonna happen ...guess you may have to move

[FHTB]

We are going to make it happen, and there will be nothing you and the loons can do about it!

[peacechants]

When and if the US government attempts to revoke or curtail the second amendment, all he11 will break loose. This is a bad time in our history to propose disarming the populace anyway, for a myriad of very good reasons.

[ABSORB]

Then move to europe and be happy and will be happier without you

[I-know]

I couldn't agree with you more. This is a very bad time to even dicuss disarming citizens

[LegalCodex]

If guns were banned, what would we do about explosives? Look at Iraq, most of the deaths over there are not caused by small arms, but are the result of people rigging their cars with bombs and the like. And unlike guns, explosives require very little knowledge/skill to manufacture in a large quantity and merely mediocre knowledge is required to do it safely.