Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Tuesday placed Police Chief Larry O'Dea on paid administrative leave a day after new details emerged that the chief misled an investigator about his involvement in an eastern Oregon hunting accident.

Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward told The Oregonian/OregonLive that O'Dea initially indicated that his friend accidentally shot himself April 21 during the off-duty trip.

"We need our Police Bureau operating at its best, and our officers can't do that when there's turmoil and confusion surrounding their leader,'' Hales said in a prepared statement.

O'Dea only recently publicly acknowledged that he shot his friend in the lower left side of his back while camping and hunting near Fields.

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