On the evening of September 9, 2004, in Portland, Oregon, 31-year-old Kenneth Ivey Davis was found fatally shot in the parking lot at the west exit of The Backswing Tavern near 6015 NE Going Street. Officers arrived about 9:30 p.m. after reports of a shooting; people on scene directed them to Davis, who was lying on his back with an apparent gunshot wound.

Witnesses said they had seen Davis in the parking lot just before the shooting, but the sequence of events that led to the fatal shot has not been made public. The Portland Police Bureau’s Cold Case Homicide Unit lists the death as an unsolved homicide; no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

If anyone was in the area that night or has information about what happened at The Backswing Tavern parking lot, please come forward.