The Portland Police Bureau has publicly identified Seth Wingfield of the Special Emergency Reaction Team as the officer who shot a suspect in Northeast Portland’s Russell neighborhood last month.
Wingfield, who works out of the North Precinct, has been with the police bureau for eight years.
Wingfield shot Patrick Myers, 44, after officers began serving a search warrant in a sex-crimes investigation, according to police. Myers came out of his home armed with a rifle as officers attempted to serve the warrant, police reported. Myers was taken to a local hospital after being shot.
Myers has been indicted for attempted murder of police officers and on five other charges.
He separately faces six counts of encouraging child abuse in the second degree and one count of encouraging sexual assault of an animal, according to court records.
Wingfield was one of three police officers who actions were found justified by a grand jury last November in the fatal shooting of PoniaX Kane Callas earlier in 2023. Callas was the suspect in the killing of an unarmed security guard at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center.
-- The Oregonian/OregonLive; dperry@oregonian.com