OREGON CITY, Or. – On Sept. 30, 2024, just before 1 a.m., two officers from the Milwaukie Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a suspended driver in the parking lot of the Taco Bell restaurant located at 11000 SE Oak Street in the City of Milwaukie. The driver of the vehicle and sole occupant of the car was identified as Hunter Newton, a 21-year white male adult from Clackamas. Newton was found to be driving with a misdemeanor suspended license. 

Officers directed Newton to exit his vehicle, and he refused. Despite orders to exit and efforts to remove Newton from the car he continued to refuse and resisted removal. During the effort to pull Newton from the car the officers fired their duty pistols, striking Newton. Newton was not armed. The investigation is ongoing to determine the chain of events that led the officers to use their firearms. 

Newton was critically injured. Additional law enforcement responded along with fire and ambulance crews. Newton was removed from the car and treated and transported to an area hospital where he remains in critical condition.  

The involved Officers have been identified as Sergeant Eduardo Sanchez of the Milwaukie Police and Officer Kwasean Akom of the Milwaukie Police. Sanchez has 10 years of service and Akom has a year-and-a-half of service.   

Both Milwaukie PD officers are on paid administrative leave as per protocol. The investigation remains ongoing and is being conducted by the Interagency Major Crimes Team and the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office.