{"id":619796,"date":"2026-05-02T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619796\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:37:08","slug":"1-dead-after-car-with-explosive-device-crashes-into-multnomah-athletic-club-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619796\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after car with explosive device crashes into Multnomah Athletic Club, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Police are investigating after they say a car with an explosive device crashed into the front entrance of the Multnomah Athletic Club early Saturday morning, killing the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Portland Police Bureau, officers were called to the scene of the club, located at 1849 Southwest Salmon Street, shortly before 3 a.m. in response to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the car caught fire, and found evidence of an explosive device inside. The driver was killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An investigation remains ongoing. Streets in the area were closed due to an on-scene investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information about the incident is asked to reach out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2026\/05\/02\/1-dead-after-car-with-explosive-device-crashes-into-multnomah-athletic-club-police-say\/mailto:crimetipes@police.portlandoregon.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2026\/05\/02\/1-dead-after-car-with-explosive-device-crashes-into-multnomah-athletic-club-police-say\/mailto:crimetipes@police.portlandoregon.gov\" target=\"_blank\">crimetipes@police.portlandoregon.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Another car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2026\/04\/09\/1-person-hurt-after-car-hits-multnomah-athletic-club\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kptv.com\/2026\/04\/09\/1-person-hurt-after-car-hits-multnomah-athletic-club\/\">crashed into the building on April 8<\/a>, injuring a security guard, though police at the time said there was no evidence of impairment or criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story and will be updated as any new information is made available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Police are investigating after they say a car with an explosive device crashed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-619796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}