Fight Turns Deadly Outside NE Portland Apartment

Crime scene tape at Village Garden Apartments
July 12, 2012, 1:44 pm
A man died of his injuries from a fight outside the Village Garden Apartments near Northeast 153rd and Sandy just after 12:30 this morning. Neighbors heard cries for help and called 911.
Officers found 40-year-old Dion Matthews critically injured. Paramedics tried to save him, but he died in the parking lot. An autopsy found that Matthews was stabbed several times.
Police set up a perimeter in the neighborhood to look for an African American man wearing a baseball cap and plaid pants or shorts who was last seen walking east from the complex.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for the tip that leads to an arrest.