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A man is accused of killing three people, including his wife, and kidnapping two others in Sandy over the weekend.

He appeared in court yesterday. OPB and Report for America’s Holly Bartholomew starts today’s newsletter with the latest on this developing story.

In other news, a California condor flew into Oregon last month, according to the Yurok Tribe. It’s the first free-flying condor documented in the state in over a century.

Here’s your First Look at Tuesday’s news.

— Bradley W. Parks

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Victims identified in Sandy shooting, kidnapping

The man arrested in a fatal shooting and standoff in Sandy late Sunday is accused of killing his wife and two other people, as well as kidnapping his 3-year-old child and one other person, according to charging documents filed yesterday by the Clackamas County district attorney’s office.

According to the court records, 38-year-old Bryan Moore killed Jenna Mary Overson, Mary Beth Overson and one other person.

Jenna Mary Overson was married to Moore. According to witnesses who spoke with OPB Sunday evening, the third person was a teenager who happened to be near the shooting, which began as a domestic violence incident. OPB is not naming the third victim because they are a minor.

Moore made an initial appearance in Clackamas County court yesterday and is being held without bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for June 8. (Holly Bartholomew)

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3 things to know

• A small school district on the Oregon Coast took steps earlier this year to move to a four-day school week. Then an order from Gov. Tina Kotek forced the district to reverse course. (Elizabeth Miller)
• Oregon will not issue license plates to undercover federal immigration authorities, Gov. Tina Kotek ordered yesterday, saying agents caused “unwarranted chaos” in communities that harmed public safety and violated the law. (Bryce Dole)
• Developers are thinking about building a new high-voltage transmission line to help meet the Northwest’s energy needs. It would run under the Columbia River. (Courtney Flatt, NWPB)

Northwest headlines

• Hall of Famer Rick Adelman, who took the Trail Blazers to 2 NBA Finals, dies at 79 (Tim Reynolds, AP)
• Oregon gets its first California condor visit in 122 years (Roman Battaglia, JPR)
• Their families helped the US fight a ‘secret war’ against communism in Laos. Now ICE is deporting them (Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez, KUOW)

Listen in on OPB’s daily conversation

“Think Out Loud” airs at noon and 8 p.m. weekdays on OPB Radio, opb.org and the OPB News app. Today’s planned topics (subject to change):

• 104-year-old donor and her son reflect on fund she created for Astoria cancer patients nearly a decade ago
• Portland councilors approve mask ban for law enforcement
• Northwest arborists go out on a limb at local tree-climbing competition

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Portland-based photographer Esther Godoy wants you to know ‘Butch is Not a Dirty Word’

Esther Godoy’s journey with the word “butch” began when they were a young queer person discovering their identity.

“I came out around 21, and I had always had this masculinity about me, but [at the time] I was too butch-phobic and far too ashamed to even think about leaning into it,” Godoy said. “I’d been ridiculed about it, I’d been teased about it. Like I was used to people being upset about my existence and my presence in their spaces.”

The Australian-born creative producer and photographer first started to reframe the way they thought about their masculine-of-center gender expression after a visit to Portland in their early 20s.

The acceptance Godoy experienced in Portland was a stark contrast to their experiences back in Australia. Now, through storytelling and photographs, Godoy intimately documents, celebrates and uplifts butch voices and butch identity.

This story originally published in 2025. (Emily Hamilton)

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