Jenna Montgomery / Blue Kalmbach / Jess Taylor
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/02/boy_16_had_swastika_carved_int.htmlPortland police have accused four teenagers of luring a 16-year-old boy to a shed behind a Southeast Portland house, attacking him with a BB gun and a crow bar and carving a swastika into his forehead, according to a Multnomah County prosecutor.
The assault was reported on Feb. 10 when the 16-year-old was able to escape and run to a nearby automotive shop to seek help, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The 16-year-old, Dustin Murrain, told police he was lured to the shed by a David Douglas High School student, Jenna Jean Montgomery, 15, whom he had met earlier that day.
Murrain said he was invited to meet the girl at Southeast 122nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard, according to prosecutor Christopher Ramras. When he did, she then walked him to a nearby home and he followed her into the shed in the backyard.
There, he was confronted by three other boys.
According to Murrain's account, he was struck in the back of the head with a silver crowbar once he entered the shed. He also was ordered to take off his shirt.
Once Murrain removed his shirt, another teen identified as Blue Christian Kalmbach, 15, is accused of shooting Murrain in the chest, the groin and index finger with a BB gun, Ramras said Friday.
Kalmbach is then accused of using a box cutter to carve a "swatstika-shaped insignia'' into Murrain's forehead, the affidavit said.
When Murrain questioned what his attackers wanted, they demanded he return with a skateboard and money, the affidavit said. They rifled through his pockets and stole his iPod, the papers said.
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The 15-year-old girl told investigators that she and the boys had concocted the scheme the night before and that she was to be the "bait'' to lure Murrain to the shed, the affidavit said.
"She stated that they had all discussed a plan to lure him over to torture him,'' the affidavit said.
Kalmbach, in an interview with police detectives, admitted he had shot Murrain in the chest and groin, carved a swatskika into his forehead and had forced him to eat cat feces, the affidavit said.
Montgomery, Kalmbach, Jess Taylor, 17, and Shane Connell, 14, were arrested last week, accused of second-degree assault, first-degree kidnapping, criminal conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping and first-degree robbery.
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The 14-year-old's case will remain in juvenile court, but the older teens will be prosecuted as adults for the Measure 11 offenses.
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East Precinct Capt. Dave Hendrie said the case was disturbing, even to longtime officers.
"It was shocking enough that even 20-year veterans were like, 'Wow'... that's just another level'" of violence that they're not used to seeing, Hendrie said.
http://www.katu.com/news/investigat...-after-allegedly-torturing-boy-245464461.htmlDrugs and ignorance is not a good combination.
That's the conclusion of several law enforcement sources after looking into the case of four teenagers facing kidnapping and assault charges after they allegedly lured another teen to a shed in Southeast Portland and tortured him for several hours.
Those under arrest are three boys and a girl. The youngest is 14. Two of them are 15 and one is 17. They were arraigned Tuesday, and the grand jury started hearing the case on Thursday.
The 14-year-old is described as the ring-leader.
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Sources say that the attackers were upset because their victim called another student "gay" on Facebook.
"He's not exactly a Sunday School model either," said one source who added that the victim admits to using drugs regularly -- as do his attackers. "At the same time, no one deserves what happened to him."
The victim is described as having come from a broken home - alternately being raised by grandparents and other relatives.
According to court records, the victim was lured to the shed with promises of sex and drugs.
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When executing the search warrant, police recovered the victim's iPod - he had been made to empty his pockets when he arrived at the shed.
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"What's really shocking about the whole thing is just how ignorant the teens were of the consequences of what they were doing," said one source. "They just didn't understand that they were breaking the law.
"None of them expressed any remorse; really just shock at how much trouble they were in. They didn't understand that it would be that big a deal.