Police have publicly identified two men killed in separate homicides in Portland last weekend.
Cesar Alejandro Cuevas-Morales, 32, of Venezuela, was shot to death in the 3400 block of Southeast 130th Avenue around 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement.
Officers found him dead at the scene when they arrived, and police haven’t announced any arrests in his killing.
On Sunday, 57-year-old Talmage L. Ellis was stabbed to death in Dawson Park around 1:15 p.m., police said.
Jermaine D. McKenzie, 50, has been arrested in the case.
Witnesses told police that a gun was fired during the incident. Emergency responders drove Ellis to nearby Emanuel Hospital, where he later died, police said. The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that Ellis had d