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Alexander Tadros

Age : 30

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 08/27/2021

Location : 1600 block of North Willis Boulevard

City : Portland

County : Multnomah

State : Oregon

Agency : Portland Police Bureau; Drug Enforcement Administration

Officer(s) :Joshua Howery; Jake Ramsey

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during attempted arrest

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/27/2021, at approximately 6:27 a.m., federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents were serving a narcotics-related search warrant at an apartment building in the 1600 block of North Willis Boulevard in Portland's Kenton neighborhood. Portland Police Bureau officers were called to assist after Alexander Tadros, 30, left a third-floor apartment and agents reported that he was armed and had threatened to shoot law enforcement officers. Portland police were not involved in serving the original DEA warrant.
Portland Police activated its Special Emergency Reaction Team and Crisis Negotiation Team and began evacuating nearby apartments. According to the subsequent police investigation, Tadros fired multiple rounds during the encounter. At approximately 7:30 a.m., a bullet traveled through a wall and struck a Portland police officer in the hip. The wounded officer was transported to a hospital and later released.
Police reported additional gunfire coming from Tadros's location. SERT officers Joshua Howery and Jake Ramsey then opened fire. Howery was a 20-year Portland Police Bureau veteran and Ramsey had served approximately four years with the department.
Tadros was struck and killed. The Oregon State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy and determined that Tadros died from a single police gunshot wound. Although both Howery and Ramsey fired their weapons, the publicly released summary does not identify which officer fired the fatal round.
Howery and Ramsey were placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting was investigated. Portland Police subsequently released extensive investigative records, including reports and grand-jury transcripts, concerning Tadros's death.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and the Oregon Department of Justice jointly presented the police shooting to a grand jury. More than 25 witnesses testified during two days of evidence. On 02/25/2022, the grand jury returned a not-true bill, determining that the police use of deadly force was not criminal under Oregon law. Neither Howery nor Ramsey was charged.
The Portland Police Bureau also subjected the shooting to its internal use-of-force review process, including review by the Police Review Board, which includes community members, Police Bureau personnel and representatives from the city's independent police oversight system.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.portland.gov/police/open-data/alexander-tadros
https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2021/08/27/36206208/portland-police-shoot-and-kill-person-in-kenton-neighborhood
https://www.koin.com/news/crime/autopsy-complete-man-killed-in-ppb-shootout-idd/
https://www.mcda.us/index.php/news/grand-jury-returns-not-true-bill-in-august-27-2021-fatal-shooting-by-an-officer-after-joint-presentation-from-the-doj-and-mcda
https://apnews.com/article/crime-police-shootings-oregon-portland-f8833609c21bde930508e8adc82209e0