On the night of January 8, 2024, officers from the East Precinct in Portland, Oregon, responded to a welfare check call in the Hazelwood Neighborhood. Arriving at the 2400 block of Southeast 106th Avenue around 10:53 p.m., they discovered the body of a man. The deceased was later identified as 30-year-old Deshawn Pledger, a male resident of Portland. An autopsy performed by the Medical Examiner would later determine that Pledger's death was a homicide caused by a gunshot wound, marking the city'
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