Two kids were injured in a shooting at a wild party thrown at a distinctive home made out of an old Boeing 727 parked in the woods in Oregon.
More than 200 teens were partying and drinking at the converted Boeing 727 in rural Hillsboro, Ore., when police were called over multiple gunshots fired at around midnight on Sunday, KOIN reported.
The two victims are minors and are expected to survive, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said, without giving their exact ages or saying if they were the intended targets. Two teens, ages 16 and 17, were detained, police said
The distinctive home is owned by retired engineer Bruce Campbell, who was in Japan at the time of the shooting.
He said he hires out the plane-turned-home for events, including concerts, for free or for a donation — while strictly banning booze or guns, he said.
“Nobody wants this. My guess is that most of the kids don’t want it either. It’s a gut punch. It’s horrible,” Campbell told KOIN.
The shooting was “entirely contrary” to the environment he wanted to create, he also told the Oregonian.
The airplane was converted in 2004 and has been an atytraction in the area ever since. But it has recently been “growing into a big nuisance,” some neighbors complained.
“It’s always been this big joy to have this airplane and show people around. But now it’s kind of getting tired,” neighbor Jeffrey Penhell told KOIN.
Police have been called multiple times to reports of wild parties at the property, he claimed.
“I’m hoping the county’s going to do something,” Penhall added.
Campbell bought the plane from a salvage company in 1999 for $100,000 after being inspired by footage of an aircraft boneyard in the Arizona desert, he said in a recent interview with KPTV.
He had it flown from Greece to Oregon, before hauling it to its current location in pieces, before reassembling it.
Campbell previously estimated his monthly costs to live on the plane as just $370 a month—including $220 in property taxes— during a 2022 interview with CNBC.
“I think there will come a day on planet Earth when we don’t destroy any jetliners ever again, when they’re all utilized as homes or small businesses or emergency provision shelters,” Campbell said.