Early this morning, near 6 a.m., Portland Police officers responded to a burglar alarm at Madison High School, 2735 N.E. 82nd Ave.

Many officers arrived in the area and began setting up a perimeter around the school.

As officers and a police K-9 unit were staging to enter the building, two people ran out of the school and disappeared quickly into a fog bank.

Officers and the police dog began chasing the burglars on foot. During the chase, and likely due to the dense fog, the police dog bit one of the officers instead of the burglar.

This morning, around 4 a.m., East Precinct police officers went to a residence in the 12100 block of Southeast Bush Street with information the suspect in the October 6th shooting in Parkrose — 33-year-old Skylar Sherwood Shaffer — would be there.

Officers deployed around the location and, by loud speaker, announced their presence then demanded Shaffer come out, which he did and was arrested without incident.

Parkrose shooting suspect 33-year-old Skylar Sherwood Shaffer was arrested this morning.

Shaffer was transported to the Detective Division downtown where he was interviewed; he was later lodged in the Multnomah County Detention Center and charged with Attempted Aggravated Murder and is being held in lieu of $250,000 dollars bail.

Tonight, near 10 p.m., a home invasion robbery took place in the 2700 block of Northeast 102nd Avenue in east Portland’s Parkrose neighborhood.

Prior to arriving at the scene, officers learned there were three armed suspects wearing masks. A husband and wife and their adult son were the victims of the residential robbery.

The husband and wife suffered non-life threatening injuries in the course of the hold-up and were transported to a nearby hospital.  Police also report shots were fired inside the home by the suspects during the course of the robbery; it is believed one of the suspects was injured in the robbery.

The suspects fled the residence prior to officers arrival.  A police canine unit was called to the scene and officers are searching the area for the suspects; the investigation is continuing.

A drug deal gone bad with gang overtones is the reason police investigators gave for shots fired in a usually quiet neighborhood of east Portland this afternoon.

When officers arrived, they learned occupants of two vehicles were involved in a confrontation leading to the shootings. One car and one house was hit by gunfire; no injuries were reported.

Northeast 107th Avenue and Oregon Street

Investigators cleared the scene on Oregon Street near 107th Avenue in the Lorene Park neighborhood after processing evidence and talking to witnesses. The investigation is continuing.

Early this morning, around 1 a.m., a police officer was driving east on Division Street at about Southeast 85th when he was flagged down by a motorist who told him a bicyclist had just been hit and run by a black SUV.

The officer immediately requested medical personnel to the scene to treat the cyclist, but soon after medical help arrived, the bicyclist was pronounced dead.  The same officer was approached by a 17-year-old bicyclist who had also been struck by the SUV.  The 17-year-old was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Portland Police Homicide Detectives identified last night’s shooting victim as 19-year-old Vinesh Ram Prasad of North Portland.

The Oregon State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy this morning and determined that Prasad died of a gunshot would to the chest.

Detectives need to hear from anyone with information about the shooting or about Prasad’s activities in the 48 hours prior to his death.

Detectives believe Prasad’s death may be gang-related and are working with the Gang Enforcement Team to follow-up any leads.

This is Portland’s 16th homicide in 2011 and 6th suspected gang-related homicide.

Near midnight last night, North Precinct police officers responded to a call of an injured 19-year-old male on Northeast Sandy Boulevard at 119th Avenue.

When police arrived, they found a man in the street believed to have been shot.  Medical personnel were called to the scene to treat the man, but shortly after their arrival, the man was pronounced dead.

On scene officers called for Homicide Detectives. The Forensic Evidence Division was also called to process the crime scene.  The Gang Enforcement Team was also on scene and assisting with the investigation.

No additional details are available at this time.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call either Detective Mark Sponhauer, 503-823-0416,  e-mail:Mark.Sponhauer@portlandoregon.gov or Detective Kristina Coffey,  503-823-0696, e-mail:Kristina.Coffey@portlandoregon.gov.

The three suspects apprehended after robbing Rounders Cafe, 11416 N.E. Halsey St. — 34-year-old Anthony Davonne Williams (also known as Antonio Denon Carter), 35-year-old Mckeever Watkins Thompson Jr., and 42-year-old Marc Edward Morrison — are not regarded as suspects by the police in the hold-up July 19 of a bar two doors down, Don’s Dugout, 11642 N.E. Halsey St. according to Detective Derek Posey.

“From what I know, it looks like the two are unrelated,” Posey said. “The Detective working that case (Don’s Dugout) hopes to make an arrest soon, but the two aren’t related.”

After a 12-hour search that began around 1 a.m. this morning, four men suspected of robbing Rounders Cafe, 11416 N.E. Halsey St. in Gateway were apprehended by police; one, 34-year-old Antonio Denon Carter of Northeast Portland (also known as Anthony Williams), was found hiding on the roof of a nearby house.

When officers from East Precinct arrived, suspects were fleeing from the scene on foot southward into the neighborhood. Police set up a perimeter from Northeast Halsey to Glisan Streets, from 112th to 118th Avenues. Patrol officers from East Precinct stopped a vehicle leaving the area and arrested the driver, 35-year-old Mckeever Watkins Thompson Jr. of Northeast Portland, as one of the robbery suspects.

Early this morning, police officers assigned to East Precinct responded to Rounder’s Café, a lottery deli, at 11416 Northeast Halsey Street on a report of an armed robbery in progress.

Arriving officers observed three suspects fleeing the area on foot. Two African American males and one white male; all three were last seen wearing dark clothing.

Officers immediately established a perimeter.  The perimeter boundaries were Northeast 112th Avenue to 118th Avenue, Halsey Street to Glisan Street.

Once the perimeter was established officers activated the Special Emergency Reaction Team.  S.E.R.T. is called when suspects in violent felonies like armed robbery occur.  SERT has the additional training and tools available to them to resolved dangerous situations like this one.