Portland Man Sentenced to 34 Years for Fatal Reaction to Sandwich Attack and Subsequent Attempted Witness Murder
Portland, Ore. — A tragic sequence of events culminated in a 24-year-old man, Jacob Fitzgerald, pleading guilty to a series of violent offenses, including the fatal shooting of a 53-year-old man following a minor altercation involving a thrown sandwich. This distressing incident, which occurred on Aug. 6, 2022, ended with the shooter attempting to eliminate a crucial witness more than a year later, officials said. According to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, the fatal …