On the evening of Sunday, March 27, 2022, Shaani Mohamed, a 39-year-old Black / African American man and a Somali refugee who had settled in Portland about two decades earlier, was shot and killed while working as an Uber driver in the Madison South neighborhood. The shooting occurred around 9:38 p.m. near Northeast Milton Street and Northeast 82nd Avenue. Officers from the East Precinct found Mohamed with a gunshot wound; despite life-saving efforts by officers and paramedics, he did not survive.

The Portland Police Homicide Unit opened an investigation. For more than three years the case had no publicly identified suspect; on October 22, 2025, police arrested 28-year-old Justin Ortega-Mejia of Portland and booked him on a charge of Murder in the Second Degree. The family was notified of the arrest.

If anyone knew Shaani, had contact with him on March 27, 2022, or has information about the shooting, please come forward to the investigators handling the case.