Brian Duane Hill, 26, was shot near the front of his North Portland home on the night of May 19, 1994, and died of his wounds on June 14, 1994. Officers responding just after 10:13 p.m. to reports of gunfire at 6435 North Gay Avenue found him gravely injured; he was taken to the hospital and fought for weeks before succumbing.

Witnesses described a man in his twenties running from the scene toward Portland Boulevard, then south on Omaha to a waiting car reportedly a mid-1980s silver or gray four-door Ford Tempo with three other young men inside; the car backed down the street with its lights off and drove away. Detectives later preserved the original witness statements and continued investigating the Kenton block shooting as a cold case.

In 2013 renewed forensic work on the file produced DNA evidence that led a Multnomah County grand jury to indict 37-year-old Marvin Lee Lambert for Hill’s killing. On May 2, 2014, Lambert pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 12-year prison sentence; Hill’s family described the long shadow the killing cast over their lives. Does anyone have memories of that night on North Gay Avenue or information that could fill gaps in the timeline?