Apartment managers shot after testifying against tenant

Portland — Shortly after he was ordered evicted, Reynaldo Diaz Cabrera walked into the office at Cascadian Terrace Apartments in Portland, pointed a revolver at two of the complex managers who had testified against him in court and fired multiple shots, according to a prosecutor.

Cabrera didn’t say a word, one of the managers told police.

The gunman walked out and also shot at the front apartment doors of two other residents who had testified against him in his eviction hearing, deputy district attorney Samuel Leineweber wrote in a probable cause affidavit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

The shooting had occurred about 12:30 p.m. on Monday.

Doris Bray, 64, was shot in the arm and chest. Bill Maddrell, 45, suffered a wound to the arm, according to the affidavit.

Police recovered a .357 caliber revolver from Cabrera when he was arrested a short distance from the crime scene in a car near the intersection of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Winchell Street, the affidavit said.

Two live rounds remained in the revolver, with four empty casings, police said.

Cabrera, 65, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on two counts of attempted murder with a firearm and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon.

He told authorities he had lived alone in Apt. 416 for nine years and received disability benefits and food stamps.

Cabrera told a detective he fired the gunshots because he was angry about having been evicted from his apartment in the 5700 block of North Kerby Ave. He said the two apartment managers he shot, and the residents he targeted, had testified against him in court earlier in the day, according to the affidavit.