2009 Portland Nightclub Shooting
On January 24, 2009, Erik Salvador Ayala opened fire indiscriminately outside of an under-21 nightclub, called The Zone, in Portland, Oregon, United States, killing two attendees and wounding seven others. Most of the victims were foreign exchange students. Police have defined murders as a random act of violence. It has been called, "the worst mass shooting in Portland's history".
Ayala was critically wounded after the attack by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He died two days later in a Portland-area hospital.
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