Portland police formally named Benjamin Jeffrey Smith as a suspect in the Portland, Oregon mass shooting that killed 60-year-old June Knightly, a volunteer with a traffic crew for the protest, and critically injured at least two others.
after a jury acquitted him of murder in November.
Records also show that Smith faced assault and harassment charges in August 2010. While the assault charge was later dismissed, he was ordered to serve two years bench probation, have no contact with the alleged victim and to submit to anger counseling, court documents show.that Smith “made me uncomfortable,” and that he kept at least four guns in his room.
He also appeared to defend Kyle Rittenhouse, writing: “Throwing Kyle under the bus after all thier [sic] talk was not only a dick move but flat out wrong. And it’s painfully obvious why... Company owned by Jews won’t support the kid that defended himself from Jews.” Those neighbors also said Smith both repaired and collected guns he would sometimes show off, the paper reported.
“He said they had threatened him and others personally in the past. He said he was ready to defend himself,” Killion told the outlet.
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