Off-duty security guard receives 5-year sentence for fatal shooting after gang brawl erupts during Portland birthday celebration

Oregon man sentenced to 5 years in state prison

Photos of Trayontay Jones were displayed in Multnomah County Circuit Court as Willie Mitchell, center, was sentenced to five years in state prison on Friday, Feb. 3, 2023.Zane Sparling/The Oregonian

An Oregon man whose birthday party ended in bloodshed was sentenced Friday to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in a 2019 killing.

Willie K. Mitchell was marking his 23rd birthday at downtown Portland’s Shake Bar on April 18, 2019, when he, his brother and friends became embroiled in a gang brawl between the Hoovers and Bloods outside the Old Town nightclub, The Oregonian/OregonLive previously reported.

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