When Michelle Hensey woke up June 28, she expected to have a typical phone call with her 20-year-old son, Alex. Instead, the other person on the end of the line was a Portland police officer.
According to a GoFundMe page created for the family, the officer asked Hensey to describe her son’s tattoos, then told her that Alex had been a victim of a homicide.
Alexzander Hensey had arranged to meet someone at Rocky Butte in Northeast Portland, but was “set up,” a cousin wrote on the page.
Around 4:30 a.m., Hensey was fatally shot.
When officers responded to reports of a shooting, they discovered Hensey’s body near the entrance to Joseph Wood Hill Park. Detectives and forensic criminalists spent the morning examining and photographing evidence markers near where Hensey’s body was found.
A medical examiner determined Hensey died of multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide.
Police in early October said they had no updates to provide.
“This is still so unreal,” Michelle Hensey wrote in a social media post after her son’s death. “I’m not blaming the gun. I blame the individual(s) who play with guns.”
Her son lived in Vancouver and had a 1-year-old daughter named Amara.
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Hensey had a criminal record that began when he was 13 years old and continued until shortly before his death.
He was convicted in 2019 in Cowlitz County of stealing a .45-caliber gun from another man after asking to look at it and then running into a car and taking off with it, according to court records.
At that time, he was a convicted felon who wasn’t allowed to possess a firearm, records show.
He pleaded guilty in the Cowlitz County case to theft of a firearm, third-degree assault, tampering with a witness and trafficking in stolen property and was sentenced in December 2019 to two years and two months in prison but was out at the time of his death.
He had earlier felony convictions in Clark County for attempted residential burglary in 2018, first-degree robbery in 2015 and two counts of taking a vehicle without permission in 2014 and 2018, court records show.
Before the attempted residential burglary, Hensey bought an airsoft pistol at a local WalMart and went to serve as a lookout while two others entered an apartment that turned out to be occupied. They made off with a Playstation and a controller, police and court records said.
According to his stepmother, Jennifer Leevers, Hensey had recently struggled with some unspecified “bumps along his journey,” but was trying to be the best father he could be to his daughter.
“He knew he needed to do better for her,” Leevers said. “Every day we talked about how he was going to do good things so his daughter would be OK.”
Hensey was enjoying speaking to his family and thinking of the future with his daughter, she said.
Hensey had a contagious grin that he would often flash at her to get himself out of trouble, Leevers said. Hensey loved to trade cars and held hopes of opening up his own car shop someday, she said.
But his biggest passion was his family, she said. He would call or send her a text message almost every day just to check on her.
“We needed him. We were not done watching him grow,” Leevers said. “Our lives will never be the same.”
-- Catalina Gaitán; @catalinagaitan_
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