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Justin Dunlap, a lighting designer at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for the last 16 years, was looking for something to do after the coronavirus shut down the downtown Portland performance center. (1/14)

The 44-year-old soon got hooked using his Samsung Galaxy s10 and selfie stick to livestream the city’s nightly summer protests on his Facebook page. (2/14)

But what became an artistic outlet for Dunlap turned into evidence for Portland police homicide detectives Saturday night as Dunlap caught video of the gunfire that left Aaron “Jay” Danielson, dead on Southwest Third Avenue, near Alder Street. (3/14)

Dunlap was walking south on the east side of Third and about to cross the Alder intersection as he talked and filmed with his phone. On the west side, he heard some men yelling. A man facing north was interacting with two men facing south in the street. (4/14)

“I saw the victim pull something up from his hip with his right hand and a big cloud of mace goes in the air,’' Dunlap said. “And then half a second later, there were two pops.” (5/14)

The staccato sounds were unmistakably gunshots, he said. Dunlap saw a man turn around, take three or four steps, then collapse in the street, as two other men, one dressed in white and the other in dark clothes, ran off. (6/14)

“That’s super scary. My wife was watching the livestream when it happened.” (7/14)

Dunlap crossed Alder after the gunshots and was about 20 feet away from the scene when the mace or pepper spray hit him, stinging his eyes. Portland police arrived about 20 seconds later, he estimated. (8/14)

They aggressively shoved street medics away from the victim and had to briefly restrain the victim’s distraught friend, Chandler Pappas, Dunlap said. (9/14)

Both Pappas and Danielson were wearing hats from the conservative group Patriot Prayer. (10/14)

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO Full video of fatal shooting in Portland: m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… (11/14)

Dunlap knew to stick around. He called over to an officer, alerting police that he had filmed the shooting. (12/14)

Police had him sit on the back bumper of their white police van, gave him a bottle of water and an officer filmed the video that Dunlap shot on his phone. He then waited for detectives to arrive. (13/14)

Read the full story: trib.al/stZs2Af (14/14)

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