Oregon couple run over teenager after store fight.

Via PortlandMercury

Russell Courtier, 38, and his girlfriend Colleen Hunt, 35, pulled their red Jeep Wrangler up to the 7-Eleven on the corner of East Burnside and 188th just before midnight on August 10. The convenience store was only a few blocks from the apartment complex where the couple lived with Courtier’s parents.

Outside, a young man named Larnell Bruce, half Courtier’s age, was charging his cell phone at an outlet along the wall, a female acquaintance later told police. He had moved to Gresham to live with his mother and his young brother six months earlier.

The crossing of the two men’s paths would prove deadly.

Within moments, a full-on fistfight had ensued—the white Courtier and African American Bruce swinging at each other and wrestling.

“Get him, baby,” Hunt urged her boyfriend, “Get him, baby!”

Courtier is said to have smashed Larnell’s head into the store window, and Larnell pulled out what has been described as a “machete”. But that wouldn’t prove to be much defense against a 9,000 truck…

According to a prosecutor’s affidavit, Courtier turned and chased Bruce “across oncoming lanes of traffic and then intentionally struck him with the front of the vehicle.” Police showed up within moments, finding the teen in the middle of the street with blood rushing from his head and ears. He’d be declared dead a couple of days later.

Gresham police spotted the Jeep shortly after it hit Bruce and pulled the pair over. Courtier and Hunt admitted to intentionally hitting Bruce, according to police. A grand jury indicted them both for murder on August 18.