In the early minutes of April 3, 1995, 40-year-old Frederico Cordova was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon after an argument that began near a small market at Northeast 9th Avenue and Alberta Street. Cordova and his wife were walking from the market when a young man stepped from a nearby tan or yellow vehicle and an argument flared. His wife left to get help and returned to find Cordova on the pavement; an autopsy confirmed he died of a gunshot wound.

Cordova was a Hispanic/Latino man who had served eleven years in the United States Marine Corps; he is buried at Willamette National Cemetery. Witnesses described the shooter as an African-American male about 18 to 20 years old with a short afro, but no arrests have been announced and the case remains open.

If anyone remembers that car, the encounter, or has information about the young man who stepped out of it, please come forward.