On the evening of November 7, 2023, a shooting in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, left 39-year-old Duresa Kuri Tibeso dead. Officers were called about 6:28 p.m. to a tractor-trailer parking lot in the 10100 block of North Portland Road and found Tibeso with multiple gunshot wounds. Patrol personnel applied tourniquets and he was taken to a local hospital, where he later died; the Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death homicide by gunshot wound.

Investigators quickly connected Tibeso’s killing to a second shooting about 6:44 p.m. near Northeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and Northeast Russell Street, in which an adult male was seriously injured. Authorities identified 31-year-old Portland resident Zelalem Bikila Guyota as the suspect in both shootings. Members of the Ethiopian immigrant community were reported to be concerned about additional violence, and officers were sent to businesses and restaurants frequented by that community. Guyota was later found dead; the Medical Examiner determined his death was a suicide by gunshot wound and the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about either shooting, please contact the investigators handling the case.