FILE - Portland Police Bureau squad car in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Oct. 8, 2025.
Eli Imadali / OPB
The man who was barricaded in a home and reportedly cutting himself before he was Tased by a Portland Police Bureau officer died by self-inflicted stab wounds.
The Portland Police Bureau announced the findings by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s office on Tuesday.
Bureau officials said the man’s identity won’t be released “out of respect for the man who died and his family.”
Officers responded to the home near Southeast 78th and Tolman Street around 5:45 p.m. last Wednesday. The man was “cutting himself at a home” and later barricaded himself inside when officers arrived.
The man continued to “stab himself” and refused police commands to exit the home. The bureau’s initial statements said the Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team, a group of volunteer officers who are trained in behavioral health crises, responded to the scene.
Bureau officials said officers developed a plan to take the man into custody. Sometime during the arrest, an officer shot a Taser. PPB officials have not said why the Taser was deployed.
The man was taken from the scene in an ambulance, bureau officials said, but he died on the way to the hospital.
The death is being treated as an in-custody death. Per policy, the Police Review Board will examine what happened and the incident will be investigated internally, the bureau said.
