On the evening of December 3, 1998, 43-year-old Gary Lamont Smith was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon. Officers stopped a 1998 teal green Hyundai Accent that had been driven erratically on Northeast Shaver Street, just east of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and found Smith severely wounded and bleeding; he died of a gunshot wound before paramedics arrived. Witnesses said they had seen Smith parked on Northeast Shaver Street, west of Martin Luther King Jr.

Boulevard, talking with another African-American man when the conversation escalated and the unidentified man fired multiple shots into Smith’s vehicle. The shooter fled on foot, heading south. Witness descriptions placed the suspect at 18 to 25 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a slender build. No arrests have been announced and the Portland Police Cold Case Homicide Unit lists the investigation as open.

If anyone knew Gary, saw that area that evening, or has information about the man who fled, please come forward.