In the early morning hours of July 19, 1998, 27-year-old Ausencio Genchi Garcia was shot and killed at the El Moro apartment complex, 2016 SE 122nd Ave in Portland, Oregon. Garcia, who worked for a local vegetable company and had no criminal record, was at a party when tensions between a large group of Hispanic individuals and several African American males escalated. Around 2:30 a.m. multiple 911 calls reported chaos; a resident found Garcia on the ground and an autopsy later confirmed he died of gunshot wounds.

Investigators described Garcia as an innocent bystander and not the intended target. Police identified a person of interest, 22-year-old Derrick Shepherd, but no arrests were announced in the years that followed and the case went cold. The City of Portland Cold Case Homicide Unit still lists the killing as unsolved.