Shooting victim's body left outside Portland hospice

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Shooting victim's body left outside Portland hospice

04:39 PM PDT on Friday, October 12, 2007

By WILSON CHOW, NWCN Staff

Homicide detectives are investigating a deadly shooting that claimed the life of a Portland man.

Watch KGW report

Just before midnight, central precinct officers found the body of 25-year-old Michael Christopher Mason at a Legacy Hospital hospice center at 6171 SW Capitol Highway. Sgt. Brian Schmautz said it appears the Mason was shot at a strip mall nearby and then moved to the hospice, where he was prounced dead.

He died of a gunshot wound, the autopsy showed.

Schmautz said Mason's body was left at the hospice facility by a white male in his mid to late 20's driving a white colored Ford Focus who identified himself as "Jason."

Detectives believe Mason was shot in the parking lot of the Wild Oats grocery store, located at 6400 SW Capitol Highway.

(kgw.com reporter Teresa Bell-Blackman also contributed to this article.)