Amara Marluke was 19 when she was shot and killed just after 1 a.m. on April 4, 2022, near the Portland State University campus at Southwest College Street and Southwest 6th Avenue. Officers found her deceased at the scene; the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide due to gunshot wounds.

Investigators focused on a fellow PSU student, 20-year-old Keenan Harpole, reporting the two had been in an on-again, off-again relationship that began in summer 2021 and that friends and family described as having destructive elements. The shooting was determined to be an act of domestic violence; Harpole turned himself in hours later in Bend, Oregon, and was transported back to Portland and charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon.

Amara was a first-year music student and co-president of the Black Student Union, remembered as an artist, activist and community-builder. Did anyone in the PSU community have contact with Amara or know more about the relationship that could help investigators?