On the evening of July 29, 2022, gunfire erupted in Portland’s Old Town near the 500 block of NW Couch Street around 9:31 p.m., leaving 19-year-old Lauren Teyshawn Abbott Jr. fatally wounded. Police found two people shot; Abbott Jr. was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death a homicide from a gunshot wound.

Investigators concluded the shooting was a shootout outside Mary’s Club. Video showed Abbott Jr. drawing a firearm and Jascha D. Manny, a club bouncer wearing a bulletproof vest and not certified to carry a firearm as private security, firing back. Abbott Jr. was killed and another person, Kolby Ross, was wounded. A Multnomah County grand jury reviewed the case in August 2022 and declined to indict Manny.

A makeshift memorial was placed on the sidewalk along Northwest Fifth Avenue at Couch Street. If anyone has information about that night or knew Lauren, please come forward and share what you know.