Funeral shooting suspect arrested
01:25 PM PST on Wednesday, January 7, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. -- U.S. Marshals have arrested the suspect in a North Portland funeral shooting last month that left one man dead.
Photo courtesy: Portland Police Bureau
Latwan Brown is wanted in connection to a shooting at a North Portland church on Friday, Dec. 12.
Latwan Brown, 30, was arrested Tuesday afternoon near his mother’s house in Hayward, Calif., a city south of Oakland.
Deputies said Brown had been charged with the death of Darshawn Cross, 31, a Portland resident.
Portland police believe Brown entered the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on Dec. 12 during a funeral for Cross’s grandmother and opened fire.
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Cross spent three days hospitalized in Legacy Emanuel Hospital before dying from the gunshots.
Since the Dec. 12 funeral shooting, police suspect that Brown’s step brother, Willie Butler Jr., was shot and killed in a gang-style retaliation for Cross’s death, according to a U.S. Marshals statement.
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