Police: Gresham bar was shot up by an officer

**irishmick** · 02-17-10, 01:50 AM

Could you all please say a prayer for the four kids left behind?

Police: Gresham bar was shot up by an officer | Gresham News

GRESHAM, Ore. - The suspect in a shooting at M&M Lounge, leaving three dead Saturday, is being identified as a 15-year veteran of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. The off-duty sergeant killed himself after shooting his wife and two of her female friends Friday night.

The shooting was just before 10 p.m. Friday at the M&M Lounge at Northeast 2nd Street and North Main Avenue. Four people sustained gunshot wounds in what police are calling a "domestic violence issue" between Jeffrey Grahn, now identified as the shooter, and his wife.

His wife, Charlotte Grahn, was transported in critical condition to Emmanuel hospital with a gunshot wound. She died Saturday afternoon.

Fifty-three-year-old Victoria Schulmerich of Gresham also was shot. She was taken to OHSU hospital and remains in critical condition.

A third woman, 53-year-old Kathleen Hoffmeister of Gresham, died at the scene from her wound.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Grahn was 46 years old and lived in Boring, Ore. He was pronounced dead at the scene with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Gresham police say Jeffrey Grahn was a patrol sergeant with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and had been employed there for the past 15 years. A source tells us Sergeant Grahn also had worked as one of two supervisors at the Clackamas County Courthouse from 2006 to 2007.

UPDATE: We are learning new details about Sergeant Grahn and his wife. Court records in Clackamas County show Jeff filed for divorce from his wife Charlotte in August of 2009. A woman who knows the couple tells us they had three children together and Sergeant Grahn had another child from a previous marriage. It is unclear from the records if the divorce was finalized by the time of this shooting Friday night.

**sgtbear111** · 02-17-10, 03:05 AM

Damn. I cannot think of anything except prayers to all .

"Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy,
jealousy, malice or desire for revenge."
Source: Iris Murdoch

"Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him
less than he had been before - it takes something from him."
Source: Louis L'amour

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."
Source: James Thurber

**lewisipso** · 02-17-10, 07:25 AM

The signs and sights of domestic violence are all to often over looked. All to often that over sight leads to just such an event. Intervention is key. Prayers sent.