On the evening of February 19, 2022, 60-year-old June Knightly was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon, while volunteering at a demonstration against police violence near Normandale Park. Knightly, a longtime activist for racial justice and LGBTQ+ rights, was working with a small group as corkers, managing traffic and focusing on de-escalation to keep marchers safe.

A man who lived in an apartment near the park approached the volunteers, began yelling and demanded they leave. Witnesses say the group tried to calm him and asked him to go home; instead he drew a handgun and opened fire. Knightly was fatally shot in the head and four other women were seriously injured, one paralyzed from the neck down. An armed bystander returned fire and the attacker was critically injured.

Initial police descriptions called it a confrontation between armed protesters and an armed homeowner, a characterization disputed by witnesses and survivors. Video evidence from the scene later supported survivors’ accounts that the victims were unarmed and the shooting was unprovoked. Did anyone at the demonstration or in the Normandale Park area see what happened that night or have additional information?