More details of Tualatin shooting emerge
Memorial fund for Beiser children started
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The Beiser Family
Final details about the Gladstone man who shot and killed his wife and himself in the Tualatin Legacy MeroLab last week are starting to emerge.
Police say that 39-year-old Robert James Beiser, using an arsenal that included a handgun, shotgun and rifle, opened fire on the medical testing center where his wife worked just before noon on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Two other employees of MetroLab, 7587 S.W. Mohawk St., were also wounded in the attack. Tony Ochoa, 63, of Tigard, was taken by LifeFlight helicopter to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, where he had surgery for multiple gunshot wounds. Ochoa was the first to be hit by the bullets as they were fired into the building. He was wounded in his hands, his chest and leg.
The badly wounded Ochoa crawled to a neighboring business where he was given first aid until officers were able to contain the scene and bring in medical units to treat the injured. He is recovering from his injuries.
Another employee, 20-year-old Brittany Nichole Lore of Vancouver, Wash., was near the front doors when the first bullets hit and was injured from flying glass and bullet fragments. She ran out of the building and flagged down help near a nearby Subway restaurant.
Lore was treated at Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Medical Center for her non-life-threatening injuries.
Just 10 days before the shooting, Teresa Marie Beiser, 36, had filed for divorce and was awarded primary custody of the couple’s two children, ages 11 and 14. According to court documents, Robert Beiser was supposed to spend weekends with the children and whatever other times the couple could work out, and would pay $1,100 a month in child support.
Police said the couple had been in the process of separating for some time, and that Robert Beiser no longer lived in the family home. Robert Beiser was a Gladstone High School graduate who worked as a contract newspaper delivery person for The Oregonian.
Memorial Fund
In response to last week’s tragic events, the Emanuel Medical Center Foundation has established the Teresa Beiser Memorial Fund to provide an opportunity for Legacy Health employees and others to celebrate Teresa Beiser’s life. The fund will be open until Jan. 31, 2010 and proceeds will be sent Teresa’s parents to aid in the care of her children.
Teresa had been employed by Legacy Health since June 1996 and worked at the MetroLab-Tualatin for eight years.
Donations, with a note indicating they are in memory of Teresa Beiser, can be mailed to P.O. Box 4484, Portland, OR 97208-4484. Credit card donations are available by telephone at 503-413-2786 or by visiting www.legacyhealth.org/foundations.