A 19-year-old woman was shot early Sunday morning in Eugene, and police say she is expected to survive. Officers were called to the 2100 block of West 7th Avenue after a report of a gunshot wound, and the woman was taken to a hospital with injuries that police believe are not life-threatening.
According to KPIC, Eugene police officers responded to the gunshot wound report in that stretch of West 7th Avenue and found the young victim at the scene before she was taken for medical treatment. The Eugene Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit has taken over the investigation, and detectives have not announced any arrests as of Sunday morning.
Police said they believe there is no ongoing threat to the broader community following the shooting. Beyond the location, the victim's age and the basic timeline, investigators have not released additional details about what led up to the shooting, including any information about a possible suspect, weapon or motive.
A Snapshot of Eugene's Shifting Crime Picture
The shooting comes as Eugene's broader crime data for 2025 paints a mixed picture. Burglaries fell by more than 31% compared to the previous year, per a report from klcc.org, even as several violent-crime categories moved in the opposite direction.
The same report found that incidents of forcible rape rose more than 39% last year, while aggravated assaults climbed around 13% and simple assaults rose about 5%. Criminal trespassing incidents jumped 54% in the city's data, a trend the police chief attributed to increased enforcement and closer cooperation with property owners, the station noted. Public calls about trespassing actually fell 17% over the same period, even as citations tied to those calls rose 129% and arrests rose 70%.
Department Priorities Heading Into 2026
Those trends shaped the department's stated goals for the year, with leadership saying trespassing enforcement would remain a focus alongside a push to reduce traffic fatalities. The city's own crime-statistics page, maintained by the City of Eugene, cautions that its reporting systems use differing rules that could lead to inaccurate conclusions if crime rates are compared without accounting for those differences.
No further details have been released about Sunday's shooting on West 7th Avenue. Anyone with information is encouraged to cooperate with the Eugene Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit as the investigation continues.
