Tom Hallman

More people in Portland died from overdosing on drugs in 2023 than in car accidents.

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Tommy Ly never knows what a day will bring. All that's guaranteed is that it costs him roughly $500 to slip a key into the front door, turn on the lights and wait for customers to buy something.

The bodies of the two were found in a burning car.

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| They set out in the middle of March for a Portland hospital room to say goodbye to a man they no longer knew. The man's father flew in from Michigan.

What took place in Southeast Portland on Friday morning is the kind of case that sends chills down the backs of cops and frightens everyone else.

Readers today are bombarded with facts and information, writes longtime Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Tom Hallman, Jr. But what we all long for is meaning and a greater connection. Those are the stories that Hallman, who is retiring after 43 years with the newspaper, sought to write.

“During my career, I’ve seen hundreds of deaths,” Astoria police's deputy chief said. “Accidents, murders, suicides. I’ve never seen anything play out the way this did.”