The Multnomah County district attorney declined to prosecute Officer Daniel Hall in the fatal shooting of Eric Jonathan Hurtado.

Thursday's memo is the district attorney's decision not to present the shooting to a grand jury. It is not the Police Review Board's review, and Hall remains on administrative leave. The Oregonian's account of the memo moves from the St. Honore Bakery to the Oregon Wines store, the Dossier Hotel, and then the Vintage Hotel. KATU named the Kimpton Hotel Vintage at 422 S.W. Broadway. Those are not one address.

The Oregonian reported Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in a story by Isabel Funk published at 4:55 p.m., that the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office closed the Oct. 15 police shooting in a decline-to-prosecute memo released that day. The paper quoted the memo: "This investigation will not be presented to the grand jury as there are no material facts in dispute related to the incident." KGW reported the same day, in a story by Anthony Macuk published and updated at 5:40 p.m. PDT, that the office concluded Officer Daniel Hall's "use of force was justified under Oregon law and therefore not criminal," and that the case will not go to a grand jury. KPTV reported the office found the use of force justified and that the case will not go to a grand jury. KATU reported the office said Hall's use of deadly force was justified, and quoted a release: "The District Attorney's Office recognizes that an individual's mental health condition may affect behavior, perception, and decision-making." A decline-to-prosecute memo, a finding that the force was justified and not criminal, and that mental-health sentence are three ways those outlets described Thursday's decision.

The Portland Police Bureau, in an update posted at 4 p.m. on Oct. 29, identified the officer who fired as Daniel Hall, a 7.5-year veteran assigned to Central Precinct, and said he remains on administrative leave, which it called standard protocol. The Oregonian said seven and a half years. KGW said seven and a half years and reported the bureau said Hall was the only officer who fired. KATU said more than seven years. The bureau said that, as with all uses of deadly force, the case is undergoing criminal, policy, procedure, and training reviews, and that it will go before the Police Review Board and the chief. Thursday's district-attorney memo, in The Oregonian, KGW, KATU, and KPTV, is a decision not to prosecute. The bureau's sentence about a criminal review still being underway is what the bureau's page still said at 4 p.m. The Police Review Board is a separate review.

The bureau said officers were dispatched at 4:34 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, to an assault with a weapon near Southwest Broadway and Southwest Washington Street, and that, while they were on the way, they were told the man later identified as 36-year-old Eric Jonathan Hurtado was armed with a box cutter and was trying to stab more people. The bureau said that at about 4:39 p.m. Hall found him outside a hotel in the 400 block of Southwest Broadway, that Hurtado was actively stabbing a bystander as Hall got out of the patrol car, and that Hall fired twice and struck him once. The Oregonian, citing the memo, put the police response at 4:39 p.m. and said Hall spotted two men being stabbed outside the Vintage Hotel in that block. Dispatched at 4:34 p.m. and on scene at about 4:39 p.m., in the bureau's account, and police responded at 4:39 p.m., in The Oregonian, are not the same clock. One bystander, in the bureau's account of the moment Hall arrived, and two men, in The Oregonian's account of that moment, are not the same count. KATU reported the scene as the Kimpton Hotel Vintage at 422 S.W. Broadway, and also described the call as near Southwest Alder Street and Broadway, just after 4:30 p.m., near Broadway and Washington. The bureau's first bulletin put the call in the 700 block of Southwest Alder Street at 4:34 p.m. The 700 block of Alder, the 400 block of Broadway, and 422 S.W. Broadway are the addresses those accounts use. KPTV reported about 4:30 p.m. in the 400 block of Southwest Broadway.

The Oregonian reported the memo's account of the minutes before the shooting. It reported that at about 4:20 p.m. witnesses said Hurtado was acting erratically outside St. Honore Bakery at Southwest Washington Street and Broadway, that he kicked a security vehicle, and that he went into the Oregon Wines store, screamed, and threw his phone and wallet. It reported he then entered the Dossier Hotel, picked up an ornamental clock, and swung it at the clerk, and that outside that hotel he tried to stab a security guard while the blade was not extended. It reported the first 911 call came at 4:33 p.m. from inside the hotel. It reported he went back to the bakery, entered the kitchen, and repeatedly stabbed an employee, and that the memo listed a lacerated left ear, a laceration from the left side of the neck to the muscle, a lacerated upper left arm, a lacerated left wrist, and a small fracture of the left upper arm. It reported that outside the Vintage Hotel he was stabbing hotel employees, and that one employee was stabbed twice in the forehead. The bureau said two people were stabbed, one inside a business and a second outside the hotel, and that both were taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The Oregonian said serious but nonlife-threatening. KPTV said serious injuries, and that they survived. KGW said slashing injuries and that they were expected to survive. The bureau's first update called the two people who were transported adult males. None of these accounts names them.

The Oregonian reported body-worn camera footage shows Hurtado fell, dropped the box cutter, then reached for it and appeared to keep trying to stab the man he had been attacking. The bureau said he fell and continued trying to stab that man, that Hall ordered everyone out of the immediate area, and that Hall seized the weapon. KATU reported he fell holding his right shoulder, picked the box cutter back up, and continued to stab the other man, and that Hall shouted "Drop it! Drop it! Drop it!" and told him he would be shot again if he did not drop it. KGW reported Hall fired while running toward an alcove where Hurtado stood with four other people, that Hurtado and two of those four fell, and that Hurtado then picked up the box cutter and slashed at a person on the ground. KGW reported Hall yelled "drop it," told the others to go, and warned Hurtado that he could be shot again. Two of four people falling as the shots were fired, in KGW's description of the video, is not a statement in that story that those two were hit by gunfire. The bureau said Hurtado also physically engaged two other people who did not need a hospital. KGW reported the same. The Oregonian and the bureau said a box cutter and a separate blade were recovered. KATU and KPTV reported a box cutter with a broken blade. The bureau said officers gave Hurtado trauma care at the scene, and that he was pronounced dead at a hospital. The Oregonian said officers gave first aid and that he was pronounced dead at a hospital. KGW reported investigators did not believe he knew either of the people he stabbed. The bureau's earlier update said detectives believed the victims and Hurtado were not known to each other. The Oregonian reported relatives had told the paper he had been showing signs of serious mental illness and that family in Southern California had hoped to fly him home for help. That is what relatives told the paper. It is not a diagnosis in the memo. The bureau reported Chief Bob Day and District Attorney Nathan Vasquez went to the scene on Oct. 15, and that the bureau's case number is 26-301198. Thursday's memo is the decision not to charge Hall. The administrative leave and the Police Review Board are what the bureau said were still in front of him.