Phillip John Rodgers was killed late on the night of Monday, June 24, 1991, after a trip into Portland’s Old Town. Rodgers, a Grants Pass resident, had been drinking at a going-away party with two female friends; the trio went into the Old Town area, reportedly to try to buy drugs. At about 10:55 p.m. his 1982 maroon Datsun station wagon stopped at Northwest 5th Avenue and Glisan Street, where an argument broke out between Rodgers and two Hispanic men. Rodgers exited his vehicle and was stabbed twice in the chest; he died in the ambulance en route to the hospital.

Witnesses described the killer as a Hispanic male about 25 to 26 years old, stocky, roughly 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall, with shoulder-length black hair, wearing a white T-shirt under a black waist-length leather-style jacket and white high-top shoes. No arrests have been made and the Portland Police Bureau Cold Case Homicide Unit is asking for information.

Did anyone in the area that night see the men involved or remember a maroon Datsun station wagon parked at Northwest 5th and Glisan?