On the afternoon of April 15, 2024, Marc-Leon Telean, a 30-year-old Black man who had recently moved to the United States from Haiti, was shot and killed in Southeast Portland. The shooting took place at about 2:08 p.m. near Southeast 84th Avenue and Southeast Powell Boulevard while Telean was a passenger in a car with two others en route to a local store. Officers found Telean deceased at the scene; a female occupant suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital, and the third person in the vehicle survived.

Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation and say the attack appears to have been random and that Telean did not know his killer or killers. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced, and the Portland Police Bureau has asked the public for information. His family in Haiti has been notified and members of Portland’s Haitian community are mourning his loss.

If anyone saw the shooting near Southeast 84th and Powell on April 15 or has information about the incident, please share what you know with investigators.