Bullet holes, shattered windows discovered at Oregon Tesla dealership

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – When Tesla employees walked into a dealership in Tigard, Oregon, Thursday morning, they discovered the building had been damaged overnight by gunfire.

Surveillance footage showed a suspect or suspects firing several bullets around 1:46 a.m., police said.

Officials say at least seven shots were fired at the car dealership, damaging three cars and shattering windows.

“One bullet went through an office wall and into a computer monitor,” Tigard police said. “Fortunately, this happened overnight when the property was unoccupied.”

However, police have not been able to form a description of the person or people involved.

The shooting comes one day after Nexstar’s KOIN obtained court documents showing a man had been arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails and shooting a Tesla dealership in Salem (about 40 miles south of Tigard) on two separate occasions in January and February.

“While the motivation for this has not been confirmed, we are aware that other Tesla dealerships have been targeted across Oregon and the nation for political reasons,” officials said.

This past weekend, some Tesla dealerships in the U.S. became sites for protesters amid backlash over CEO Elon Musk and his role in the Department of Government Efficiency. And another Tesla dealership in Colorado was vandalized in January and February by a suspect who planted incendiary devices and spray-painted the words “Nazi cars” on the building, the Associated Press reported.

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