Police identify man killed in shooting outside NE Portland hotel

A fatal shooting in a Howard Johnson parking lot in Northeast Portland killed a man on Sunday, Sept. 25.
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Police have identified the man killed in an early morning shooting outside a Northeast Portland hotel as Martese Oliver, 26, of Washington.

The shooting in the parking lot of Howard Johnson hotel at Northeast 82nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard was reported about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. Oliver died at the scene.

Martese Oliver, 26, died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022 at a shooting in the parking lot of a Howard Johnson hotel in Northeast Portland.

The Multnomah County Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide by gunshot wound.

No one has been arrested in the fatal shooting — which marks Portland’s 72nd homicide so far this year.

In 2022, four other men have been killed within a one-mile radius of the most recent homicide — including two who were shot to death near the Madison Suites motel at Northeast 82nd Avenue and Milton Street and one who died a couple weeks after an assault outside the Evergreen Inn & Suites

READ: Who has died in Portland homicides in 2022

-- Savannah Eadens; seadens@oregonian.com; 503-221-6651; @savannaheadens

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