On the morning of November 17, 2002, 25-year-old Domingo Lee Gonzales was shot near 7144 NE 22nd Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Officers responding to a 4:31 a.m. shooting saw a vehicle speeding from the scene and pursued it to Emanuel Hospital, where the driver ran in saying his passenger had been shot. Gonzales was inside with fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Witnesses reported multiple rounds fired behind a residence on NE 22nd Avenue, then another burst of gunfire and the sound of screeching tires. Observers described an African-American male leaving the area in a dark-colored 1980s Buick Regal, and someone in a light-colored plaid shirt exiting the passenger side of a light-colored Buick Skylark just before the shooting; that Skylark was seen fleeing afterward. Investigators later considered a possible gang-related motive involving the Rolling 60s Crips and Hoover Crips and noted a suspected retaliatory shooting three days later that killed 23-year-old Asia Bell.

No arrests have been made and the case is cold; anyone with information about that night or the vehicles involved is asked to contact the Portland Police Bureau’s Cold Case Homicide Unit.