UPDATED Tuesday, July 9: Suspect in deadly SE Portland hit-and-run identified as 20-year-old man

***

Minutes after Dale Heasley arrived home, he was greeted with an unsettling surprise: a man knocking on his back patio door, asking frantically to be let in. When he turned around and went to the front door of his Southeast Portland home, police were already shutting down the street.

The man, a suspect in a hit-and-run crash at Southeast 148th Street and Powell Boulevard that killed at least one person around 3 p.m. Monday, then ran into Heasley’s backyard, where he hid in the pool. Police came into the yard and arrested him without incident around 5 p.m..

As of about 10 p.m., Portland police spokesman Carlos Ibarra said the suspect had not been booked, and police would not confirm his name.

A Portland Fire & Rescue spokesman said an adult woman was hit and killed at the scene.

“The police were already here,” Heasley said. “I looked out my back window, and the pool cover was off the pool. He was hiding inside the cover.”

Police have released few details about the incident, or the condition of those injured. But there were at least four cars at the scene with severe damage, and witnesses who live near the intersection of Southeast 148th and Powell said they heard a loud crash, and that they saw the suspect run.

“There’s crashes here all the time, but this one was extra loud,” said Kristi Rogers, who is staying in a house near the scene. “I ran out here, and as I turned the corner, I saw a guy open up the back door of the car, grab some stuff, grab a neon shirt or sweatshirt, and then run.”

This story will be updated.

—Jayati Ramakrishnan; 503-221-4320; jramakrishnan@oregonian.com; @JRamakrishnanOR

Visit subscription.oregonlive.com/newsletters to get Oregonian/OregonLive journalism delivered to your email inbox.