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Four men were killed in a June 6, 2021 shooting inside a southeast Portland home in the Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood. The victims were identified as 24-year-old Donavon Lenford, Eyion Willis, 23, Mitchell Nacoste, 31, and Kendall Gragg, 27. Investigators determined the violence erupted during an attempted robbery of roughly 100 pounds of marijuana stored at the residence. Nacoste lived at the house; Nacoste and Gragg were half-brothers.

Police say three men came from Texas to carry out the robbery. During the attempted crime a shootout left both intruders, Lenford and Willis, dead along with the two occupants. A third man who had come from Texas reportedly fled in a van. In March 2022, authorities arrested 27-year-old Jeremy Michael Lenoire in Frisco, Texas, and extradited him to Oregon on charges that include two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery, and two counts of first-degree burglary.

At trial in Multnomah County in May 2025 prosecutors argued Lenoire and accomplices planned the robbery in Texas and took steps to avoid identification; they said Lenoire was culpable under the felony murder rule even if he did not fire the fatal shots. The defense maintained Lenoire was mistakenly identified and had traveled to Portland for protests, and said a legally owned firearm found at the scene was used by someone else. The trial outcome has not been reported. Anyone with information about Donavon Lenford or the June 6, 2021 events is asked to come forward.