PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for shooting and killing a man following a Jefferson High School football game in 2011, according to authorities.
Shawn Degail Crawford was sentenced to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm for killing Deondrae Clark over 13 years ago.
Clark was near Jefferson High School on October 21, 2011, during a football game before the shooting.
“After the game, Mr. Clark and others stayed in the area. Officers observed Mr. Clark walk out of sight on North Emerson for less than a minute before hearing eight to ten gunshots.
According to a press release from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, officers responded to the shooting scene and discovered that Mr. Clark had been fatally shot.
DNA evidence discovered on one of three guns found at the crime scene would later implicate Crawford in the shooting, as that gun was the source of several spent casings on the ground from bullets attributed to Clark’s death, according to officials. Crawford also fled the scene, as evidenced by video surveillance.
Crawford was indicted by the Multnomah County Grand Jury in 2018 for the 2011 fatal shooting in Portland.
Crawford was already in prison in Washington State for a 2017 conviction on two assault charges, one of which involved a firearm, stemming from incidents in 2015.
Crawford’s new 16-year sentence for the 2011 killing will keep him imprisoned at the Oregon State Department of Corrections until 2034, according to officials.
