Joshua Brewer, 18, was shot and killed on the night of August 9, 1997, at the southeast corner of SE Milwaukie Avenue and Powell Boulevard in Portland. Around 10:24 p.m. a group of Asian men arrived in a vehicle and a separate small white car pulled to the curb. A passenger from the white car stepped out and opened fire; Brewer was struck and died at the scene while two others were wounded.

Detectives later noted Brewer was a reported member of the Westside Family Crips, a detail that influenced early theories about motive but did not produce charges. Witnesses described the shooter as an Asian male, late teens to early twenties, with black hair streaked blond. The occupants of the first vehicle, the shooter from the white car, and any suspects remain unidentified and no arrests have been announced.

Anyone who remembers that night, the small white car, or who has information about the people involved is asked to contact Portland’s Cold Case Homicide Unit.