In the early morning hours of March 17, 2025, gunfire in Portland’s Centennial neighborhood left 45-year-old Brianne Pardue dead. Officers found her in the 14000 block of Southeast Harrison Street around 12:30 a.m.; she was pronounced dead at the scene and the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound. Brianne had been temporarily living on that street.

Friends and family described Brianne as a mother of two who loved planting, camping and riding motorcycles, and remembered her as generous with an adventurous spirit and a sharp sense of humor. The Portland Police Bureau’s Homicide Unit identified a suspect quickly, and later that same day arrested 35-year-old Joshua Thielbar, an acquaintance of Brianne’s. He was booked on charges that included Murder in the Second Degree, Unlawful Use of a Firearm and Felon in Possession of a Firearm; he pleaded not guilty at arraignment.

What can readers who knew Brianne or who were in the Centennial neighborhood that night add to the timeline or the picture of what happened?