PORTLAND – Three people forced their way into a Southeast Portland home early Friday morning and then attacked and robbed the people inside, police said.
Police were able to respond quickly and captured two suspects a short time after the attack just outside the home, around 6a.m. However, two other suspects managed to escape in a getaway car.
The home invasion occurred just after 4 a.m., at a home in the 5700 block of S.E. 72nd Avenue, according to investigators. “Officers arrived and discovered that three occupants of the house had been assaulted,” said Sgt. Greg Stewart with the Portland Police Bureau. Two of the victims were hospitalized with minor injuries.
Police chased the fleeing suspects for a short time, but backed off due to unsafe driving conditions in the rain and in busy neighborhoods.
Then, about an hour later, they got a break in the case.
The fleeing driver had crashed into several parked vehicles near the intersection of SE 50th and Hawthorne, and then fled on foot, setting off a manhunt. Officers swarmed the area and, with the help of an alert Good Samaritan, managed to find two men "acting suspicously," who they took in for questioning, Stewart said.
As of 1 p.m. Friday, no one had been arrested, but Stewart said all four men were being questioned in the case as potential suspects.
