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Portland Police Investigate Suspicious Package At Site Of Fatal Train Attack

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By OPB Staff

Published June 9, 2017 at 1:11 PM PDT

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<p>The bridge over the MAX tracks at the Hollywood Transit Center in Northeast Portland. Memorials to the victims sprouted on the bridge and at the street corner.</p> — The bridge over the MAX tracks at the Hollywood Transit Center in Northeast Portland. Memorials to the victims sprouted on the bridge and at the street corner.

Portland police investigated a suspicious item at the Hollywood Transit Center in East Portland.

Police dispatched a bomb squad to investigate the item, later detonating the item in a controlled explosion.

People in the area were evacuated from the transit center during the investigation. Police had closed off I-84 westbound and Northeast Halsey Street near the station, re-opening it shortly before 3 p.m. Friday.

The investigation came two weeks after a man stabbed three people, killing two of them, on a TriMet MAX train near the same station.