A Jaguar-driving drug dealer was almost killed during a bloody shootout a month ago inside his Northwest Portland home, new court records show.

Bullets tore through Keith Macey's chest and back when a suspected burglar shot him, records show. The wounded resident, armed with a weapon of his own, returned fire.

"I was quickly in a state of shock," Macey said in an interview Wednesday with The Oregonian/OregonLive. "It was just kind of like being poked with a hot branding iron until I woke in the hospital."

The gunfight erupted late morning on Feb. 23 in a quiet stretch of Northwest 21st Avenue between Northwest Wilson and Vaughn streets.

But vivid and wild details about the shooting emerged Tuesday in a probable cause affidavit filed by Multnomah County prosecutors, who are seeking charges against a man accused in the home invasion.

"There was a significant amount of blood at the base of the stairs, there was blood leading up the stairs and there were bullet holes on the wall, ceiling and a pillow on the couch and window," the affidavit reads. "There was blood on the couch as well."

Macey, 37, said he had struggled in recent years with opiate pill and heroin use after a shoulder surgery that caused him chronic pain. He would deal drugs from his home to help fund his habit, he said.

"That's how I started down that path," he said.

He told police he suspected someone may have been after a stash of prescription pills he had recently acquired, though he was unsure who, according to the affidavit.

Macey told police he awoke to the sound of someone breaking into his home.

He grabbed a 9mm pistol and rushed downstairs to find one man in his kitchen and another in the adjoining living room, court records show.

"Mr. Macey held his gun down at his side and yelled 'Hey' thinking that would scare the intruders away," the affidavit reads.

Instead, the man in the living room whipped out a 40-caliber handgun and started squeezing off rounds, Macey told police.

Macey said he felt a bullet enter his chest as the man in the kitchen turned tail and ran away. Macey then started shooting at the gunman and bolted back upstairs, he said.

That's when Macey felt second bullet rip through his back. By the time he reached his bed he believed he was on the verge of death, Macey told investigators.

"He could hear his lungs sucking up liquid," the affidavit reads.

Macey struggled to dial 911 because his phone was drenched in blood, he told police.

Emergency personnel rushed Macey to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center hospital, where he was intubated and treated for his injuries. Detectives interviewed him Feb. 26.

Macey said he spent the next three weeks in the hospital. One of the bullets struck his ribs and punctured his lung. The other blew out his colon and lower intestine.

Keith Macey (right) poses with child-actor-turned-musician Corey Feldman (center), who he saw perform at Dante's last year. "He was pretty cool, though an odd character," Macey said of the "The Goonies" and "The Lost Boys" star.

Macey said he now has an open incision that stretches from below his belly button to the middle of his chest. It will take at least six months to heal, he said.

Police recovered five 40-caliber shell casings from the scene and three 9mm casings, according to the affidavit.

Macey, who said he served in the Marine Corps and builds high-end road bikes, has no recent criminal history.

Court records show a silver Jaguar parked outside Macey's home and registered under his name has been cited nine times in the past year for not having a front license plate.

Police on March 6 interviewed one of the men suspected in the home invasion, court records show.

Michael Dwight Wise, who was booked in the Multnomah County Jail on a separate drug charge on March 5, admitted he had been in Macey's home the morning of the gunfight, records show.

Michael Dwight Wise

Wise, 38, said he and another man, whose name he claimed not to know, broke into Macey's home with a crow bar because they believed the resident had pills and cash they could pillage, records show. Wise repeatedly told police he did not shoot anybody.

Multnomah County prosecutors on Tuesday filed criminal charges against Wise, including attempted aggravated murder, first-degree robbery and third-degree burglary, court records show. He is scheduled to be indicted March 28.

Sgt. Chris Burley, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman, said Macey currently faces no criminal charges in the incident.

"At this time the victim is not being investigated and is considered by the bureau to be a victim of a crime," Burley said.

Macey said he has been clean since the shooting, stopped dealing drugs and is receiving treatment for his addiction.

"It was definitely a wake-up call," he said. "I needed to change the path in my life."

-- Shane Dixon Kavanaugh

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