Teens wanted for separate crimes in Oregon arrested after car crash into Vancouver house

Two teens wanted in Oregon in separate cases were arrested Wednesday after a car they were associated with crashed into a house and caught fire just outside of Vancouver city limits.

Julian M. Gallardo and Kceon L. Colbert, both 19, appeared Thursday and Friday, respectively, in Clark County Superior Court on fugitive from justice charges.

Colbert was wanted in the July 10 shooting death of Shai’India Harris in Southeast Portland. A secret indictment and warrant for his arrest says he’s facing second-degree murder with a firearm and unlawful use of a firearm, both domestic violence-related.

The Hillsboro, Ore., Police Department said that Gallardo was indicted by a Washington County, Ore., grand jury on two counts of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, and one count each of first-degree assault with a firearm, second-degree assault with a firearm and first-degree criminal mischief. The charges stem from a June 30, 2019, shooting in Hillsboro that left one man wounded, according to the police department.

Both were being held without bail in the Clark County Jail and waived extradition, meaning they will be extradited to their respective jurisdictions, court records show.

According to an affidavit of probable cause filed in Colbert’s fugitive case, members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force responded to 2610 N.E. 164th Ave. to arrest Gallardo.

While officers were watching the house, a black Toyota Camry pulled into the driveway. The car was reported stolen out of Portland during a carjacking.

Two people, including Gallardo, came out of the house. When task force members attempted to contact them, the Toyota tried to flee between the house and a parked travel-trailer, the affidavit says.

The car crashed into the two-story home’s electrical gas meter box, according to Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Joe Spatz, and caught fire, setting the residence’s vinyl siding ablaze.

The fire, reported shortly after 1 p.m., damaged the outside of the house only, Spatz said.

The other man with Gallardo refused to identify himself but was identified by authorities as Colbert. Portland police arrived to the scene to confirm his identity and arrest him, the affidavit says.

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