On the night of September 6, 1982, 21-year-old James Kesch was working as an attendant at a Chevron service station on N Lombard Street in Portland, Oregon when someone found him shot inside the station at about 9:30 p.m. He was taken to a nearby hospital but died shortly after arrival. Investigators thought a robbery may have gone wrong, but a puzzling detail is that no money was taken from the cash register or the safe despite signs of a struggle.

Witnesses described an unidentified African-American man in his late teens to early twenties, about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches, medium build and medium complexion, wearing a dark baseball cap, a dark or navy blue service station-style jacket, dark pants and with shoulder-length hair. That person became the primary suspect, but no arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone has information about James Kesch, the person seen at the station that night, or other details that could help, contact the Portland investigation or Crime Stoppers of Oregon.