Two shootings involving police and replica guns in a 9-hour span are under investigation in Oregon’s largest city.
(FOX)- The shootings in northeast and southeast Portland Thursday left a teenage robbery suspect dead and a homeless man critically wounded, according to local media reports.
Police said Quanice Hayes, 17, and Don Perkins, 56, were armed with “realistic-looking” replica firearms when they were shot.
Portland Police Chief Mike Marsham said it was hard to tell the guns were fake, Fox 12 Oregon reported.
He said “in looking at the photos myself, it would be extremely difficult for anybody in a moment’s notice to know that they are not actual firearms,” according to the station.
Hayes was shot around 9:20 a.m. Thursday as cops were looking for him in connection with a gunpoint robbery in front of a motel two hours earlier.