Photo – The van was caught on residential Ring camera surveillance in Milwaukie where the shooting of mail carrier David Knapp occurred about 12:40 p.m. on Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 2022, according to Milwaukie police and U.S. postal inspectors.
A federal judge Wednesday rejected an insanity defense and found a man suffering from schizophrenia guilty of all charges for shooting and wounding a mail carrier in Milwaukie on Christmas Eve 2022.
Ruling from the bench after a three-day trial, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut found that while Kevin Eugene Irvine was suffering from a severe and untreated mental illness at the time of the shooting, he “knew his acts were illegal.”
Immergut said she considered that Irvine deliberately carried rifles in his van, parked his van on a street in Milwaukie, retrieved a .22-caliber rifle, drove around to look for the mail carrier, knelt and fired at him three times, then picked up all the shell casings, put his sweatshirt’s hood up and drove off. He subsequently made three Door Dash deliveries in his van later that day, Dec. 24, 2022.
Immergut found Irvine, 34, guilty of aggravated assault of a federal employee with a firearm, attempted murder of a federal employee and use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
