On the morning of December 31, 2003, multiple gunshots were heard around 6:40 a.m. in a North Portland neighborhood near N. Missouri Avenue and N. Mason Street. Newspaper delivery workers found 16-year-old Aaron Michael Prasad-King, an African-American male, gravely wounded in an alley between N. Missouri and N. Michigan Avenue. He was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries on January 2, 2004, and the case was treated as a homicide.

Witnesses told police they saw an unidentified person in dark clothing running east on N. Shaver across Michigan Avenue shortly after the shooting, but that vague description did not produce an identification. The Portland Police Bureau’s Cold Case Homicide Unit has continued the investigation, and no arrests have been announced.

Who in the neighborhood or anyone with information about that morning could help bring answers about who shot Aaron and why?