On January 29, 2010, 25-year-old Aaron Campbell, a Black man, was fatally shot by a Portland Police officer in Northeast Portland after officers responded to a 9-1-1 report of a suicidal man armed with a gun. Campbell was in an apartment at the Sandy Terrace Apartments and had been despondent after his younger brother’s death earlier that day. His girlfriend told officers Campbell was inside with three young children, had threatened suicide, and had been seen with a gun that he last put in his coat pocket.

Officers negotiated with Campbell by text and later through a crisis negotiator. At 6:07 p.m. Campbell emerged with his hands behind his head; that detail was not communicated to all officers. He moved quickly backward, kept his hands behind his neck, then lowered them and yelled that officers would have to shoot him.

A grand jury declined to indict Frashour in February 2010. The police chief later found the use of force and less lethal force were out of policy; Frashour was terminated while Lewton and Sergeants Liani Reyna and John Birkinbine received 80-hour suspensions. Subsequent arbitration and appeals led to contested rulings about reinstatement and discipline, and no arrest was made in connection with Campbell’s death. Does anyone have information about the incident or knew Aaron Campbell?