Portland, OR- On Thursday, May 8, 2025, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Christopher Marshall sentenced Dylan Levi Rhoads to 90 months in prison for shooting at a man who confronted Mr. Rhoads over Mr. Rhoads harassing a flock of peacocks roaming a southeast Portland neighborhood.
Rhoads pled guilty to Attempted Murder in the Second Degree With a Firearm and Unlawful Use of a Weapon With a Firearm and resolved 8 different cases against him.
Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Eric Palmer prosecuted the case for the state.
After the sentencing he said: “This defendant had a clear pattern of escalating, dangerous, criminal behavior. And yet he was repeatedly released after being arrested for his earlier crimes.
I believe the system failed here- failed both the victims and the defendant.”
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office would like to thank the work of Detective Sara Clark, of the Enhanced Community Safety Team within the Portland Police Bureau, for her dedicated work to this case.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office would also like to thank MCDA Victim Advocates Amina Dureti and Nang Dunn for their compassionate care shown to the victims in this case.
THE FACTS:
On September 29, 2023 Mr. Rhoads’ victim was leaving his wife and kids at his home and heading to work. When he stepped out of his house, he noticed the defendant and another person harassing peacocks across the street. He asked them to stop. They had a violent response to him including saying “bock, bock, bock you next” and “We can bang right now.”
The victim disengaged, went back into his home and let them drive away. When he thought it was clear, he went back out to his car to leave and made it a couple blocks to the next intersection and saw that they were waiting for him there. The driver shot at the victim from the driver’s seat of their vehicle. Investigators found five shell casings in the intersection and multiple bullet strikes to the victim’s car.
Bullets grazed the victim but fortunately he did not suffer serious injuries, in part because he had installed a special, heavy duty seat in his vehicle which stopped one of the bullets from hitting him.
Police used a Ring camera video to get a good picture of the defendant’s vehicle and found the vehicle within days, connecting the car to the defendant.
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