5-year sentence cut to probation for Portland man who killed woman during meth-smoking session

A Portland man was sentenced to two years of probation Thursday for having the gun he used to kill a woman in his apartment after his previous five-year punishment was overturned on appeal. Prosecutors originally charged Kirk Mickels with murder for killing Gabrielle Dozhier in the downtown Hamilton West building on April 10, 2022, but a grand jury convened the next month found the evidence lacking and instead indicted Mickels only for being a felon in possession of a gun. Hallway surveillance footage showed Mickels accompanying Dozhier and Monnette Turner...