Tigard Double Homicide Suspect Caught; Was Jailed Until November

Hillsboro OR

16 December, 2021

9:03 PM

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HILLSBORO, OR — Ronald Stephens is 40-years-old, lives in Portland, and was arrested in Sandy Thursday night by Tigard Police who promptly charged him with two counts of first-degree murder. They say that Thursday afternoon, he was in an apartment in the complex at 11485 South Greenburg Road in Tigard. Police arrived there just after noon after some had called 911 to report the sound of gunfire from an apartment. By the time officers arrived, Stephens was gone. Inside the apartment, police found a man and a woman. They were both dead. Officials tell Patch that the two people, whose names have not yet been released, knew Stephens and both had been involved in criminal activity. Stephens also is no stranger to a jail cell. He had been in jail until last month after getting arrested in September by Portland Police who said that he had sped away when they tried to pull him over. The brief chase stopped when he ran into another car. He has a record going back almost 23 years, getting arrested on drug and weapons charges as well as being charged with attempted robbery. Police had locked down the building for almost 45 minutes after the victims were discovered as they searched for the man now identified as Stephens.