In the early morning hours of August 6, 2022, officers responded to a shooting on the 1100 block of North Schmeer Road in Portland’s East Columbia neighborhood and found 53-year-old Otis Shayne Abner. The medical examiner ruled Abner’s death a homicide from a gunshot wound. Investigators initially reported no suspects at the scene.

Police later learned Abner had been in a vehicle with a 23-year-old man and a woman before an argument prompted Abner to get out of the car; that man was subsequently identified by authorities as the primary suspect in Abner’s killing. The case was described in the context of Portland’s rising gun violence and noted Abner was a grandfather to six.

What new information might help move this case forward for investigators or family members who remember Otis or that neighborhood on the night of August 6, 2022?