On September 28th, 2000, in Portland, Oregon, twenty-six-year-old Sharveil Moorer walked to the Going Street Market shortly before eleven p.m. to buy a pack of cigarettes. About ten minutes later, Sharveil staggered up to his father’s house on North Vancouver Avenue, saying he’d been shot by someone he didn’t recognize who fired on him from a vehicle.
The victim was transported to the nearest hospital but succumbed to his injuries shortly afterward.
Sharveil had a troubled past and was once a member of the Kerby Block Crips street gang. He seemed to have left this behind him, though, and was working at his father’s scrap metal business.
His former associations would seem to provide a possible motive for the slaying, but no leads along those lines ever panned out, and the investigation has since gone cold.
Crime Immemorial 