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PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland police are asking the public for help to find a missing person.

Roommates reported Tyler Brady, 22, of Southeast Portland, missing over the weekend after not seeing him for a week. He was last seen on Feb. 19.

His employers said he's a great employee who never missed a day of work. Police said he has no criminal record and he has no known disabilities.

Tyler is described as 5-feet-10-inches tall and 150 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, a scruffy beard and a moustache. He also has tattoos on one arm and on the back of his neck, and a nose piercing as seen in the photo. No description of his clothing is available.

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Police said his distinctive bicycle – described as a fixed-gear, single-speed model with a matte-black frame and all-white handlebars – is also missing.

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A Portland police officer was killed Sunday evening when the vehicle he was driving hit a dump truck in Vancouver, according to the Portland Police Bureau.

The crash happened in the 7300 block of Northeast 182nd Avenue. Police say Adam Cushman was on his way home from work when he ran into the back of a dump truck that had stalled. The dump truck's lights were not on.

Cushman is survived by his wife and their two children, ages 10 and 13.

Cushman, who had been with the Portland Police Bureau since 2000, was promoted to the rank of Criminalist in 2006 and was responsible for processing crime scene evidence for the bureau's Forensic Evidence Division. He was also trained in blood pattern analysis, fingerprint analysis, crime scene reconstruction and had recently trained as part of a Homeland Security team that investigates deaths related to major catastrophes. He was a graduate of the National Forensic Academy at the University of Tennessee.

Prior to being a Criminalist, Cushman was a patrol officer for the Southeast Precinct.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Portland police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man last month returned to duty on Wednesday.

Officer Ron Frashour was cleared to go back to work after a Multnomah County grand jury found his use of deadly force fell within guidelines.

But Frashour will be working for a neighborhood response team, and not taking emergency calls.

Frashour said he shot 25-year-old Aaron Campbell because he believed Campbell was reaching for a weapon and trying to get into position to use it.

Campbell was shot in the back when he emerged from his girlfriend's apartment following calls to 911 from her family that Campbell was suicidal and wanted police to kill him.
      
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Photo caption: The late Aaron Marcell Campbell watches over the hospital bed of his late brother Timothy Douglass in this family photo.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A grand jury has decided that the Portland police officer who shot and killed a man during a standoff in Northeast Portland last month did not break any laws.

Officer Ronald Frashour shot Aaron Campbell once during a standoff outside the man's apartment at Northeast 128th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard.

Police say Campbell stopped following instructions and began to run away. It turned out Campbell was unarmed.

Even though the jurors decided the officer was not at fault, the Oregonian is reporting that jurors will draft a letter to the police department addressing what it calls some troublesome issues related to the incident.

The Albina Ministerial Alliance is planning a protest at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11 at the downtown Portland Justice Center on Southwest 3rd Avenue.

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