A birthday party at an Embassy Suites near Portland International Airport on March 15, 2023, ended in deadly gunfire. Teonjenique Elizabeth Lashay Hudson Howard, 24, known as TiTi, was inside a hotel room when an altercation erupted and multiple people opened fire. Officers arriving at about 2:44 a.m. found TiTi fatally shot. Nineteen-year-old Adrian Daeshawn Granville was also killed; two others, including a security guard, were wounded and survived.

Investigators with the East County Major Crimes Team identified 33-year-old Raman Lawrence as the person who fired the fatal shot that killed TiTi. A grand jury indicted Lawrence in August 2023, and in June 2024 a judge found him guilty of first-degree murder with a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm; he was later sentenced to life with parole possible after 30 years. The investigation into Adrian Granville’s death remains ongoing.

If anyone attended that gathering or has information about what sparked the altercation, please share what was seen or heard with investigators.