In the early morning hours of June 7, 1998, 33-year-old Jeffrey Steven Lange was found shot to death inside his vehicle on the on-ramp to I-405 from Northwest 16th Avenue and Everett Street in Portland. First responders arrived at about 2:20 a.m. and discovered the car riddled with bullet holes; what initially looked like a single-vehicle crash was instead a homicide scene.

Friends described Lange as an all around great guy and a passionate golfer with no criminal history; those who knew him say there was no apparent motive. Witnesses reported seeing two men running east from the area where gunshots were heard, but those sightings did not lead to identifications or arrests. The case remains unsolved and is treated as a cold case.