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| **Tuesday April 03 01:56 AM EDT**                                   |   |
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| ## Officers On Leave After Mental Patient Shot                      |   |
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| Portland police say that even a shot from a beanbag gun did not     |   |
| calm a mental patient who was so violent that an officer had to     |   |
| shoot and kill him.                                                 |   |
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| KOIN 6 News reports that the 29-year-old victim, whose identity has |   |
| not been released, was a patient at Pacific Gateway Hospital and    |   |
| Counseling Center, 1345 S.E. Harney Street. Police say that         |   |
| officers were called to the psychiatric facility about 9:20 p.m.    |   |
| Sunday because the man was threatening people with pencils.         |   |
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| When officers left a half-hour later, they thought that the patient |   |
| was secured in a secluded room.                                     |   |
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| But the patient escaped his room and became even more violent than  |   |
| before, police say.                                                 |   |
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| \"At some point during this incident this person apparently hit a   |   |
| crash door, the one with the metal rod, or the metal bar across the |   |
| middle,\" Lt. Mike Hefley of the Portland Police Bureau says.       |   |
| \"Apparently, he was able to obtain a metal rod out of that door    |   |
| \... and was advancing on officers when he was shot twice by one    |   |
| officer.\"                                                          |   |
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| The two officers involved in the shooting are on paid               |   |
| administrative leave. Portland police will turn the routine         |   |
| investigation over to the District Attorney\'s office, possibly by  |   |
| next week.                                                          |   |
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| This is not the first time that police have been called to Pacific  |   |
| Gateway Hospital.                                                   |   |
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| In June, three teenagers, who police considered dangerous, escaped  |   |
| by breaking out a window with a dresser. The teens were apprehended |   |
| a few days later.                                                   |   |
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| KOIN 6 News reports that Pacific Gateway Hospital has a history of  |   |
| complaints that date back at least six years.                       |   |
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| The hospital allegedly kept such poor records that federal          |   |
| regulators were one step away from cutting off Medicare payments    |   |
| last year. The hospital corrected the problem and retained the      |   |
| funding.                                                            |   |
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| Patients are required to obtain staff permission before leaving the |   |
| facility.                                                           |   |
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