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Even veteran police officers were shocked by the violence of the alleged attack against a 16-year-old boy in a Southeast Portland shed, one said.

(The Oregonian)

Portland police have accused four teenagers of luring a 16-year-old boy to a shed behind a Southeast Portland house, attacking him with a BB gun and a crow bar and carving a swastika into his forehead, according to a Multnomah County prosecutor.

The assault was reported on Feb. 10 when the 16-year-old was able to escape and run to a nearby automotive shop to seek help, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The 16-year-old, Dustin Murrain, told police he was lured to the shed by a David Douglas High School student, Jenna Jean Montgomery, 15, whom he had met earlier that day.

Murrain said he was invited to meet the girl at Southeast 122nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard, according to prosecutor Christopher Ramras. When he did, she then walked him to a nearby home and he followed her into the shed in the backyard.

There, he was confronted by three other boys.

According to Murrain's account, he was struck in the back of the head with a silver crowbar once he entered the shed. He also was ordered to take off his shirt.

Once Murrain removed his shirt, another teen identified as Blue Christian Kalmbach, 15, is accused of shooting Murrain in the chest, the groin and index finger with a BB gun, Ramras said Friday.

Kalmbach is then accused of using a box cutter to carve a "swatstika-shaped insignia'' into Murrain's forehead, the affidavit said.

When Murrain questioned what his attackers wanted, they demanded he return with a skateboard and money, the affidavit said. They rifled through his pockets and stole his iPod, the papers said.

Murrain was taken to OHSU Hospital for treatment.

Police located the suspects at 3266 S.E. 111th Ave., Ramras said.

The 15-year-old girl told investigators that she and the boys had concocted the scheme the night before and that she was to be the "bait'' to lure Murrain to the shed, the affidavit said.

"She stated that they had all discussed a plan to lure him over to torture him,'' the affidavit said.

Kalmbach, in an interview with police detectives, admitted he had shot Murrain in the chest and groin, carved a swatskika into his forehead and had forced him to eat cat feces, the affidavit said.

Montgomery, Kalmbach, Jess Taylor, 17, and Shane Connell, 14, were arrested last week, accused of second-degree assault, first-degree kidnapping, criminal conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping and first-degree robbery.

The four were booked into Donald E. Long juvenile detention about 4 p.m. on Feb. 10 and appeared the next day before family law Multnomah County Circuit Court Kathryn Villa-Smith in Juvenile Court. Each entered not guilty pleas to the allegations.

The 14-year-old's case will remain in juvenile court, but the older teens will be prosecuted as adults for the Measure 11 offenses.

Taylor told police he had held a BB air rifle on Murrain to keep him from escaping, the affidavit said.

Ramras said he didn't know the motive in the crime, or if Murrain knew the three boys. The shed was behind a home where Connell was living with his grandparents, Ramras said.

East Precinct Capt. Dave Hendrie said the case was disturbing, even to longtime officers.

"It was shocking enough that even 20-year veterans were like, 'Wow'... that's just another level'" of violence that they're not used to seeing, Hendrie said.

A grand jury is hearing the case and is expected to return an indictment by Tuesday.

--Maxine Bernstein