Thirty-five gunshots were fired at the Lloyd Center area Residence Inn Marriott about 2:30 a.m. Friday, with one bullet penetrating a room and grazing a guest, Portland police said.

The shooting occurred in the back of the property at 1700 N.E. Multnomah St. after someone renting a room hosted a party, Sgt. Scott Montgomery said. The bullets struck the second floor of Building 11.

"A car pulls up and unloads 35 rounds on the hotel," Montgomery said.

One bullet entered a room, striking a woman who was visiting Portland on business from Taiwan, Montgomery said. The bullet grazed her leg, but she wasn't seriously injured, police said.

"We were very lucky,'' Montgomery said.

Lee Luetjen, manager of the Residence Inn, said later Friday morning that all her guests are fine, and everybody was "good-natured'' about it.

"Nothing like this had ever happened here before,'' Luetjen said.

The suspected gang-related shooting has driven the number of police calls of gang shootings and assaults to 74 so far this year, one below the 75 reported at the same time last year, according to police.

There were six shootings in the last two weeks, including a house riddled with bullets on June 6 on Northeast 93rd Avenue. It marked the third shooting of the home this year.

Bullets penetrated a young boy's room in a home on Northeast 93rd Ave. about 3:25 a.m. on June 9, the third time the home was shot up this year, Portland police said. The woman who lives at the home with her three young children told The Oregonian|OregonLive that she plans to move, and her children no longer sleep in the residence because of the violence. (Maxine Bernstein |Staff)

The tenant, a woman with three young children, was not the target but the fathers of her kids have gang affiliations and may have been the targets, police said.

"She has kids by opposing factions,'' Montgomery said.

The woman, in an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive, said the latest shooting sent bullets whizzing through the bedroom of her young son. Luckily, her children weren't home at the time. She said she's looking to move, and won't allow her kids to sleep at the house any longer.

Police are investigating whether another apartment shooting, which occurred on June 10 in the 6600 block of Southeast Belmont Street, was targeted at the landlord, who was a juror in a Gresham gang-related homicide case, police said. No one was wounded in that shooting.

Another bullet that penetrated the second-floor window of a home on Northeast 93rd. Ave. on June 9, about 3:25 a.m. The bullet entered a young boy's bedroom, but his mother said she was the only one home at the time in a back bedroom. No one was wounded. (Maxine Bernstein|Staff)

Tactical operations police Capt. Matt Wagenknecht said he's hopeful that police and community outreach groups and others can keep this year's gang-related violence from reaching the level recorded last year.

Yet Portland gang enforcement officers said they're sometimes being pulled off their regular shifts to fill vacancies in patrol shifts because of the bureau's staffing shortage.

In 2015, the Gang Enforcement Team responded to 193 gang shootings, stabbings and assaults, the highest number since the Police Bureau began recording the data in 1998 and far above 109 in 2014.

Anyone with information about Friday's shooting at the Residence Inn Marriott is asked to call the Police Non-Emergency Line at 503-823-3333.



-- Maxine Bernstein

mbernstein@oregonian.com

503-221-8212

@maxoregonian