Surveillance video shows Portland chef being carjacked

Morchella chef Cameron Dunlap said that he couldn’t make out faces, but the carjackers sounded young — like teenagers.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A local chef is still shaken after being robbed and carjacked at gunpoint Thursday night while out foraging for figs in Southeast Portland. The entire ordeal was captured on surveillance video from a nearby business.

Cameron Dunlap was heading home from work when he stopped near Southeast 135th and Division to collect figs, a favorite ingredient at his Northeast Portland restaurant, Morchella. He’d parked his car in a nearby lot and stepped a short distance away when another car pulled in.

“There was five people in the car,” Dunlap recalled. “Three of them jumped out and surrounded me and were very threatening.”

The surveillance video shows Dunlap speechless, unsure what to do.

“Two of them went and got in my car and one of them pulled a gun on me,” …