Asher Ethan HK Mendes, a 20-year-old Black/African American from Sherwood, Oregon, was fatally shot the evening of July 12, 2024, at Sellwood Riverfront Park in Portland. Portland Police Bureau officers from the Central Precinct found Mendes deceased after responding to a shooting call around 11:16 p.m. The Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound and classified the death as a homicide.

Detectives say the shooter or shooters fled before police arrived and that numerous people who had been at the park left without speaking to officers. No arrests or public identifications of suspects had been announced as of late August 2024, and homicide investigators have appealed for witnesses to come forward. Mendes had recently become a father, was experiencing homelessness, and had told his mother he’d been feeling threatened in the weeks before the killing; on the night he was killed he was attending a party at the park.

If anyone was at Sellwood Riverfront Park the night of July 12 and saw or heard anything, can you help investigators by contacting the Portland Police Bureau?