On the night of June 27, 2024, 30-year-old Hunter Sutherland Lantz Hecker, a White male, was fatally shot in Portland’s Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood after he and his girlfriend intervened to stop a man assaulting a woman near The Lion’s Eye Tavern. The confrontation escalated when the assailant attacked Hecker’s girlfriend and then shot Hecker multiple times. Hecker collapsed on the sidewalk and died in his girlfriend’s arms; officers arriving after reports of a disturbance and gunfire found him deceased at the corner of Southeast 82nd Avenue and Southeast Knight Street.

The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide by gunshot wound, and Portland Police Bureau Homicide detectives opened an investigation. On July 16, 2024, detectives with the Special Emergency Reaction Team and Crisis Negotiation Team arrested 18-year-old Adrian G. Garcia; he was lodged at the Multnomah County Detention Center and faces second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon charges.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see what happened that night or have information about the people involved?