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Brian Hansen, 51, of Vancouver, was found dead on Portland’s Burnside Bridge on November 19, 2018. An investigation determined he died from a single gunshot wound to the head, and surveillance footage captured him walking across the bridge followed by a person pulling a wheeled suitcase. The recording shows a muzzle flash and the follower running away shortly afterward.

Police identified the person in the video as 29-year-old James Javontae Barquet, a convicted felon. Officers located Barquet in the area soon after Hansen’s body was found and recovered a .45-caliber pistol from him; ballistic testing tied that gun to the shooting that killed Hansen. Investigators also linked the wheeled suitcase to a robbery at a nearby Chevron station and to a second homicide that night, 70-year-old Carol Horner, found under the Morrison Bridge.

Barquet was arrested and charged with two counts of murder, first-degree robbery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. If anyone saw Hansen on or near the Burnside Bridge that night or has information about the suspect’s movements, please come forward.