In the late hours of a summer evening in 2016, a dispute between a landlord and his tenant in Milwaukie, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, ended in the death of 53-year-old Ricky Pineda McKowen. On August 7, 2016, McKowen, a male ex-military member, was shot and killed by his landlord.
The landlord, who was arrested at the scene, claimed that the shooting was in self-defense. He told authorities that his tenant, McKowen, had threatened to kill him. Following an investigation into the fatal in
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