Background: The scene of the incident in Beaverton, Oregon (KPTV/YouTube). Inset: Sky Alexander Korbut (Beaverton Police Department).
In a distressing episode in Oregon, a young girl anticipated a simple ride from her boyfriend but ended up taking a harrowing trip to the hospital after he shot her. The girl’s urgent text messages to her mother were pivotal pieces of evidence during the trial.
Sky Alexander Korbut, now 20 years old, faces almost six years imprisonment as declared by the Oregon Department of Corrections. The Beaverton Police Department reported that a jury found him guilty of second-degree assault along with illegal firearm possession in April.
This troubling event took place in Beaverton’s Southwest Prairie Terrace area, just outside Portland, early on the morning of November 21, 2024, around 4:50 a.m. Korbut and his 16-year-old girlfriend were in his apartment at that time.
According to court records reviewed by Portland’s NBC partner KGW, the girl had come over asking for a lift home. Korbut, who was tidying his room, placed a gun atop a dog kennel before showing it to her. She reacted by telling him to “get it out of her face” and pushed it away.
Korbut shot the girl seconds later, according to prosecutors.
After she was shot, the girl texted her mother in a panic.
“I got shot,” read one text, followed by “Mama” and “Plz” and “Help me,” a screenshot shared with regional Fox affiliate KPTV shows. Her mom had been asking for her location and had just texted her, “I thought u coming home.”
Korbut called 911 and told dispatchers that “he had accidentally shot” his girlfriend, the Beaverton Police Department recounted. Officers showed up at the home and found the girl “suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. She was transported to a local hospital with critical injuries.”
A GoFundMe set up for the girl said she “was shot in her stomach” and it affected “many organs and parts in her body.” Court documents said the bullet hit her intestines, gallbladder, liver, and pancreas, and she “needed 20 liters of blood.”
Though doctors apparently told her family “there was a chance she might not make it,” the girl survived.
The suspect-turned-felon was initially arrested and charged with third-degree assault. However, as the investigation progressed, that charge was upgraded after “detectives uncovered additional evidence, including statements provided by the victim that contradicted Korbut’s account of the shooting.”
Korbut told authorities that he had bought the Smith & Wesson handgun illegally from someone “on the street” after failing background checks, according to court records. He seemed perplexed that the gun fired, saying he was “waving” the gun while moving it when “somehow, the gun went off.”
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