Serious mental illness rarely leads to violence. Oregon should do more to keep it that way, doctor says
First responders said it came down to luck that the undetonated devices found in the detritus of the Multnomah Athletic Club attack did not harm anyone.
“What I’d really like to stress is how close this was and how dangerous this was,” Sgt. Jim DeFrain of the police bureau’s Metro Explosive Disposal Unit said on Monday.
While it’s impossible to know exactly what was in the mind of Bruce Whitman, the man who rammed a car full of explosives into the Multnomah Athletic Club in the wee hours of Saturday morning, he was ultimately the only person killed in the explosion…
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