45-year-old Donny Calabaza, an avid member of the Indigenous community, was one of three people fatally shot between August 18-19.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Dushonia Calabaza lost her younger brother, Donny Calabaza on August 18. “What happened to him shouldn’t have happened,” she said.
He was shot and killed in the Buckman neighborhood at the corner of Southeast Washington and 9th Avenue. “They must have had some type of hatred, or they were upset about something, or they knew you. It wouldn’t just be someone out there to shoot you. Something had to happen,” she said.
Donny Calabaza was one of three people shot and killed between Sunday and Monday. So far, Portland police have yet to find suspects in any of the murders. While gun violence deaths have dropped compared to the last two years, it doesn’t take away from the families still losing their loved ones today.
“And you get shot walking outside your door or going …