PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Multnomah County grand jury has ruled that the Jan. 2 use of deadly force by two Portland police officers at an abandoned car wash was justified.
Thomas Higginbotham was shot and killed that day in southeast Portland.
Portland police have said that Officers Jason Lile and Larry Wingfield responded to the former Lucky Car Wash after reports that a security guard had been threatened by a man.
Investigators say the officers tried to use a stun gun to subdue the knife-wielding man, but he wouldn’t drop the weapon. The 67-year-old homeless man died from gunshot wounds.
The grand jury made its decision Thursday.
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Information from KPTV, the Oregonian
