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Police have cordoned off an area of downtown Portland at Southwest Columbia Street and Park Avenue after a reported shooting Tuesday night near the Safeway grocery store.

(Shane Dixon Kavanaugh/The Oregonian)

Police have taken a wounded suspect into custody after a shooting Tuesday night in downtown Portland near the South Park Blocks.

Officers responding to the area also found another adult male suffering from a non-life-threatening wound.

They have c

ordoned off an area near Southwest Columbia Street and Park Avenue. A report of shots fired came just before 8 p.m.

Police said the suspect was holed up in an apartment building in the 1400 block of Park. Before the suspect was taken into custody, officers with assault rifles were outside the front door, and more officers were in the building even as some residents remained inside.

Police believe at least one of the wounded was struck in a parking lot across the street from the Safeway grocery store. A large section of the South Park Blocks remain taped off.

Josh Howell, a 42-year-old resident of the building, told a reporter at the scene that he heard two loud noises but wasn't sure what they were. He left the building to investigate, and said one of his neighbors walked past him and told Howell to call an ambulance because he had been shot.

Howell said he saw another man getting up off the ground in a nearby parking lot. That man staggered off with a woman, said Howell, who then ran inside.

This story will be updated as more details become available.

-- Andre Meunier and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh