Shooting
At approximately 10:30 p.m. PST, Ayala drove his vehicle to Southwest 4th Avenue and Southwest Main Street in the downtown of Portland, and walked ahead of The Zone, an under-21 nightclub where a birthday party was being held. Ayala fired indiscriminately onto a group of teenagers and customers waiting outside the entrance of KELL's Irish Pub with a 9mm Tanfoglio T95 semiautomatic pistol, killing two people and wounding seven others. Most of the victims were in a foreign exchange student program. Ayala then shot himself in the head, critically injuring himself in the suicide attempt, dying on the following Tuesday afternoon at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland.
16-year-old Ashley Lauren Wilks was pronounced dead at the scene, by responding emergency personnel, from two gunshot wounds. 17-year-old Martha Paz De Noboa was pronounced dead at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital shortly after being shot. 18-year-old Susanna De Sousa was in critical condition from injuries to her stomach, chest, and neck. Bradley Yoast, the general manager of Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, a neighboring bar, suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach; he was discharged from a hospital two weeks later.
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