On the evening of September 19, 2016, Marquis Stephion Taylor, an 18-year-old Black man, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot in a North Portland neighborhood near North Willis Boulevard and Hereford Avenue. Officers found Taylor after he had run some distance from the scene and then collapsed; medical personnel pronounced him dead at about 8:30 p.m.

Investigators say the shooting occurred during a drug transaction that turned violent. Taylor and two other 18-year-olds, Mehamed Osman Ali and K’Shawn Davon Harris, had arranged to meet 19-year-old Richard Anderson III to buy marijuana.

Richard Anderson III was arrested on October 14, 2016. The grand jury reviewed the evidence and declined to indict Anderson, finding his actions justified; he was released and the charges related to the shooting were dismissed. The grand jury did indict Mehamed Osman Ali and K’Shawn Davon Harris on first- and second-degree robbery charges for their roles in the incident.

Did anyone in the area witness the meeting near North Willis Boulevard and Hereford Avenue or have information about the robbery that preceded the shooting?