A man fired multiple gunshots, some damaging Southwest Portland residences, before taking his own life Tuesday night, police said.

Portland police officers responded shortly after 9 p.m. to reports of gunshots fired in the 3300 block of Southwest Multnomah Boulevard, Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman, said in a news release.

Medical personnel found the man to be dead at the scene because of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot, Simpson wrote.

Police didn't find any other gunshot victims, Simpson wrote, and the Oregon State Medical Examiner is heading to the scene to conduct a death investigation.

-- Jim Ryan

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