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“I’m pinned there,” Collins said. “People are yelling, ‘Drop the gun. Kill these Nazis! We are white. We are tattooed. I’m not a white supremacist. I have conservative leanings, but I try to keep them to myself and play nice with everybody.’’
Someone took the magazine out of the pistol and another man tried to stand on the gun, Collins said.
The crowd of people attacking him – about a dozen, he estimated - included Marquise Love, the man now accused of kicking another man in the head and knocking him out on Aug. 16, Collins said.
Collins decided to let go of his gun and ran from the crowd, he said, heading west, then north on Southwest Fourth Avenue.
“I was scared at the moment they were going to take it and use it on me,” he said.
Police had arrived by then, about 7:30 p.m., and ordered him to the ground, Collins said. He was taken by ambulance to OHSU Hospital.
Collins, at 5-foot-6 and 165 pounds, said he suffered a concussion and was bleeding from his lip. He told police his gun was missing and that his and his friend’s cellphones had been stolen. Collins said earlier that night he drank two shots of bourbon within an hour at Kells.
Reinoehl, 48, arrived at a local hospital by a private car that night, according to police.
The next day, on a Bloomberg QuickTake news video, Reinoehl was interviewed while standing across the street from the Multnomah County Justice Center downtown, a bloodied bandage wrapped around his arm above his elbow.
During the interview, he said he’d been shot through his arm in an altercation between a man and a group of minors, though he said he wasn’t sure what started it. He said he tried to wrest a man’s gun away.
“I jumped in there and pulled the gun away … and I got shot through the arm,” he said.
Collins, who lives in Colton, does delivery work for Amazon, helps make ammunition for a private company and had been a Uber driver until the coronavirus pandemic hit, said he wasn’t aware anyone had been hit by the shot from his gun until the day after the incident.
Collins’ gun hasn’t been recovered, police said. Detectives are continuing to conduct interviews and investigate.
Collins said he’s still suffering from the concussion and in “shock and awe” about what unfolded. He’s sorry anyone was shot and wounded, he said, but doesn’t believe Reinoehl “had any right to disarm me.”
In Reinoehl’s video interview, “he admits that he had no idea what was going on” but got involved, Collins noted.
During a protest on July 5, Reinoehl was cited for having a loaded gun in a public place after a struggle with police about 2 a.m. in the 700 block of Southwest Main Street.
During the struggle, a 9mm handgun dropped from Reinoehl and police seized the pistol, according to police. The citation was later dropped, though it’s unclear if Reinoehl ever got that 9mm gun back. Police have not said whether Reinoehl sought to get his gun back and have not responded to an Oregonian/OregonLive public records request for the July 5 police report.
Reinoehl also is wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court, issued out of Baker County on July 8 in a speed racing case from June. On June 8, he and his 17-year-old son were racing in two different cars at speeds of up to 111 mph heading east on Interstate 84 near North Powder, according to state police. He was stopped driving a Cadillac with his 11-year-old daughter as a passenger, police said. Inside the car, police said they found marijuana, “unidentified prescription pills” and a loaded Glock pistol for which Reinoehl didn’t have a concealed handgun license, police said.
He faces allegations including driving under the influence of a controlled substance, recklessly endangering another, unlawful possession of a gun and driving while suspended and uninsured.
On the night of August 17, Reinoehl also was spotted on videotape with an antagonistic crowd outside the 7-Eleven store on Southwest Fourth Avenue, events that led up to Love’s alleged assault on a pickup driver later that night.
Video of Saturday night’s fatal shooting on Southwest Third Avenue shows a man matching Reinoehl’s description at the scene and running away. Reinoehl’s sister said she identified Reinoehl to police as the man in the video. Reinoehl social media posts says he supports the Black Lives Matter movement and show him attending recent protests. He describes himself as “100% Antifa.”
Aaron “Jay” Danielson, 39, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest. He had attended a car caravan in support of Donald Trump earlier Saturday. He was wearing a ballcap with the insignia of Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group that has been at the center of a series of street brawls with antifa opponents.
Witnesses to the shooting described yelling between some men who encountered each other on the street about 8:45 p.m., one of them spraying mace or a similar stinging chemical and then two shots.
No arrest has been made.