Ace Lamar Lewis was a 28-year-old Black man living in Portland, Oregon, in 2023. Family remembered him as a sweet, loving young man who loved his family and friends, and as someone with big ambitions — he had worked as a security guard in North Dakota and hoped to join the Secret Service. He enjoyed talking about space travel and video games and was described by his brother as a big old kid who lived in the stars.

In the early hours of July 5, 2023, after a Fourth of July party, Ace’s girlfriend asked her cousin, Raymond Lavaughn Grant, for a place to take her and her two children. Grant drove to their apartment in the Argay Terrace neighborhood and went into the building to find Ace. A confrontation inside the 4400 block of Northeast 131st Place ended when Grant, who was armed, shot the unarmed Ace multiple times in the back, chest, armpit, and neck. Officers arrived shortly before 1 a.m. and found Lewis deceased; the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide due to a gunshot wound.

If anyone knew Ace, his movements that night, or saw activity around Northeast 131st Place on July 5, what can you share?