Cleveland High School Shooting: A Student Was Shot Outside Cleveland HS, and Authorities Are Investigating

Cleveland High School Shooting: On Monday, a 16-year-old boy was shot outside of Cleveland High School in Southeast Portland, according to police. At 12:34 p.m., the school went into lockdown after reports of gunfire in the area. Fortunately, nobody else was hurt. After walking himself into a nearby hospital at 12:50 p.m., the injured adolescent is likely to make a full recovery, authorities said. Witnesses reportedly told authorities that two automobiles were engaged in the incident.

Three individuals were killed on Sunday in Southeast Portland, an elderly couple was discovered dead in their Beaumont-Wilshire house on Saturday, a guy was shot and injured in the afternoon in a downtown parking lot, and a woman, 27, was discovered dead in Powell Butte Nature Park on Friday.

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During the lockdown, an announcement told students that classes would conclude early at 2:30 p.m. and that they would be freed individually by floor. Cleveland High School afterward sent out a statement announcing that classes would be canceled on Tuesday so that teachers could hold a meeting to discuss how best to support students when they returned. Principal Jo Ann Wadkins notified parents via email that students who need assistance can come to school after 11 am to speak with guidance counselors, and that to-go lunches will be provided in the cafeteria.

Portland Public Schools released a statement saying, “It is with continued irritation and regret that we confirm a Cleveland High School student was shot today outside of school.” Three students from Jefferson High School in North Portland have been shot and injured in two different incidents in the previous two months. According to the police, a 17-year-old Jefferson student was shot in the shoulder by someone in a passing car on November 14 just after school let out, one block from the school’s field.

Two students were shot and injured four weeks prior to this incident, one in the leg and the other in the hand, by other youths firing from a passing automobile that subsequently crashed outside of the school’s gym. After their automobile crashed, the suspects fled the scene. Currently, there have been no detentions. The Enhanced Community Safety Team of the Portland Police Bureau is looking into the shooting. Franklin Street, Southeast, between 26th and 28th Avenues, is now closed.

After a terrible automobile accident happened outside of Cleveland in October and was witnessed by a number of pupils, parents at the school expressed shock, fear, and sadness. Leslie Kossoff, whose child is a senior at CHS, stated that some students in the area of the Cleveland gymnasium on Monday witnessed the shooting and were advised to hit the floor to keep themselves safe. Kossoff leads the school’s Parent-Teacher Association as its president.

That there is an active shooter at your child’s school is the last thing any parent wants to hear, she said. Kossoff claims she drove to the site to talk with police as soon as her phone began buzzing with text messages about the shooting because she lives only a few blocks away from the school. That’s too a lot for the kids and the staff to take, and it’s not fair. She continued, “We live on a knife’s edge.”

According to Kossoff and fellow CHS parent Duncan Parks (who also has a senior at the school), Wadkins and her staff moved swiftly to reassure students, change the lockdown to a lockout, and contact parents. In a world full of firearms and post-Covid madness, Parks believes the school is doing its best. “PPS is having to deal with the chaos in the world at the moment.”