Two killed in Tualatin rampage

By Ed Johnson

The Lake Oswego Review, Nov 12, 2009

A 39-year-old Gladstone man with Lake Oswego ties shot and killed his estranged wife Tuesday morning at the Tualatin drug-test lab where she worked in what police are calling an act of domestic violence.

Tualatin police said Robert James Beiser killed 36-year-old Teresa Marie Beiser, also of Gladstone, in an attack shortly before noon at the Legacy MetroLab on Southwest Mohawk Street in Tualatin. Robert Beiser, who worked as a car appraiser for Property Damage Appraisers in Lake Oswego and as an independent contractor for The Oregonian, then turned his weapon on himself, and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Two other MetroLab employees also were wounded in the attack. A 63-year-old man was taken by Life Flight helicopter to Oregon Health and Science University Hospital, where he had surgery for multiple gunshot wounds. A 20-year-old woman was injured by flying glass and was treated at Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Medical Center for her non-life-threatening injuries.

Police and fire departments from around the region – including from Lake Oswego – responded to the shootings.

Witnesses said that just before noon a man later identified as Robert Beiser, armed with a rifle, walked up to the Legacy MetroLab, 7587 S.W. Mohawk St., and opened fire on people in the building.

Beiser began shooting before he entered the building, blowing out one of the lab’s front windows. People in businesses several hundred yards said they heard the rifle shots.

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