Crime & Safety

Driver Shot While Heading South On I-5 Early Monday Morning: Police

Early Monday morning, a person was grazed by a bullet while driving south on Interstate 5.

Police are trying to find the person who fired a shot, grazing someone driving south on I-5 early Monday morning.
Police are trying to find the person who fired a shot, grazing someone driving south on I-5 early Monday morning. (Colin Miner/Patch)

PORTLAND, OR — Portland police are looking for the person who fired a shot, grazing a driver headed south on Interstate 5 early Monday morning.. Police said that it happened around 1:30 a.m. and the driver was not seriously wounded.

Police said that they were told there was a person in the backseat of a car parked along Southwest 2nd Avenue by Harvey Milk Street.

They arrived, found the person, and applied a tourniquet, according to police, who also said that there was no one else in the car at the time.

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Police have not released any more information about the driver.

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