'Heard 6 gunshots': Man seriously wounded in N. Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- A shooting in a residential North Portland neighborhood early Saturday night rattled neighbors and brought an hours-long police presence that sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries.

One man was shot in the leg, police said, whose life was "likely saved" when officers put a tourniquet on the wound and rushed him to the hospital by ambulance around 6 p.m.

Officers spoke with neighbors and canvassed the ground for evidence.

The suspect left the scene near 9500 North Woolsey before police arrived and no one has been arrested, police told KOIN 6 News. The investigation into the shooting is active and ongoing.

One neighbor, Angel Stempert, told KOIN 6 News she was sitting inside her home with her family with the doors and windows open when she heard the shots.

"We heard, like, about six gunshots. Just like 'pop pop pop pop.' And then a few seconds went by and we heard two more, and we didn't think much of it. We thought maybe our neighbor was letting off fireworks like he normally does sometimes, Stempert said. "And then we heard a siren and that's what we heard. So we knew it was definitely gunshots."

She said they went outside to see what was going on when they noticed "some commotion going on just up the street."

There were "a couple people wrestling," she said, "a couple of people just running across the park." At that moment, only one officer was there, but "then more officers showed up and they were kind of restraining some people and trying to get the commotion down."

Stempert said she is completely surprised at this level of violence in what she described as a quiet neighborhood.

"We've lived here for three years, and nothing's ever happened to this close to home," she said.

But others who spoke with KOIN 6 News said they're not shocked after years of hearing frequent fighting in the area.

KOIN 6 News will have more information as it develops.