Portland Police said on Sunday there were two separate shootings in less than an hour of each other, one person was hurt and another person was killed.
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The detective who knew too much: Don DuPay’s Portland police career haunts him. He’s still trying to get justice
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Don DuPay joined the Portland Police Bureau in 1961. He resigned in frustration 17 years later. (Photos courtesy of Don DuPay)
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When Don DuPay found her in the Plaid Pantry store, the woman was sprawled on her back, her clothes torn from her body. She’d been raped and then knifed to death.
A week earlier the first week of September in 1975 the Portland police detective had taken on another distressing case, this one involving a Black teenager shot to death in his bedroom. DuPay showed up late for the autopsy, hoping to avoid seeing the medical examiner saw into the boy’s skull.
Apr 24, 2021
On April 23, 2021, at 7:57 a.m., a Portland Police Bureau officer assigned to the Central Precinct drove by a parked, no plated vehicle with a subject asleep at the wheel. The vehicle was parked near the intersection of SE 14th Ave and SE Main St. The officer stopped to investigate and could see a firearm inside the car.
Additional officers responded to assist. Officers continued their investigation, eventually seizing $11,000 in cash, drugs, and two guns.
The subject, 28 year-old Patrick Rocha Dacosta, was safely taken into custody and transported to the Multnomah County Detention Center. Dacosta was charged with Felon in Possession of a Firearm (x2), Possession of a Loaded Firearm in Public (x2), Delivery of Methamphetamine, and Possession of Methamphetamine.