{"id":2684,"date":"2023-12-17T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2023-12-17T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:01:29","slug":"woman-says-she-fired-a-gun-at-portland-airport-because-she-wanted-to-kill-her-texas-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"Woman Says She Fired a Gun at Portland Airport Because She Wanted to Kill Her Texas Family Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"J8--cHsByrc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman charged in PDX airport shooting told officers &#039;Yup, I did it&#039;: Court documents\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J8--cHsByrc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"custom-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Laura Patterson, 47, was arrested by Port of Portland police after allegedly shooting a gun into the air near the security checkpoint for concourses D and E. She likely faces a dozen criminal charges, including four alleging attempted murder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"QMM24HCUY5CXZKIKF6MXYCUBLQ\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Court records released Thursday indicate Patterson drove from her home in Kennewick, Washington, to PDX to shoot her gun but not to hurt anybody.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"SRHOZHTCLBCWRPO7X5ENRG7DPU\" class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cPatterson stated that when she arrived at the checkpoint she unzipped her purse, took out the gun and shot it,\u201d she told a detective, according to court records provided by the Multnomah County District Attorney\u2019s Office. \u201cPatterson advised she came to the airport because she needed to do something because she wanted to kill her family members.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Police also talked to a witness who said he heard two bangs and then saw a woman put a gun down on the floor and say something along the lines of, \u201cIs anyone going to do anything?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A man who was in the bathroom near the checkpoint at the time\u00a0has said the woman told him the gun went off after she dropped it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201c\u2018Cause I\u2019m crazy, I guess,\u201d the woman told Patrick Leonard, 58, when he asked her why she\u2019d dropped the gun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Fedor Zarkhin in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2023\/11\/pdx-airport-shooting-suspect-said-she-fired-gun-on-purpose-but-didnt-want-to-hurt-anyone-prosecutors-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDX airport shooting suspect said she fired gun on purpose but didn\u2019t want to hurt anyone, prosecutors say<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/woman-says-she-fired-a-gun-at-portland-airport-because-she-wanted-to-kill-her-texas-family-members\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 \u00a0 Laura Patterson, 47, was arrested by Port of Portland police after allegedly shooting a gun into the air near the security checkpoint for concourses D and E. She likely faces a dozen criminal charges, including four alleging attempted murder. Court records released Thursday indicate Patterson drove from her home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}