PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A suspect has been arrested more than six months after a deadly shooting occurred at a pizza shop in Northwest Portland.
Around 2 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2021, gunshots rang out in Portland’s Nob Hill neighborhood — shattering the glass door of Silver Dollar Pizza Company at Northwest 21st and Glisan Street. One customer, Jacob Knight-Vasquez, was shot and killed while two others sustained serious injuries.
For months, the suspected shooter remained at large — but police say they’ve now tracked him down.
According to the Portland Police Bureau, the United States Marshal’s Service located and arrested 25-year-old Marshawn Edwards on Monday. He was found in Fairview, Oregon after homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant.
Edwards is currently booked in the Multnomah County Detention Center and faces charges of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, second-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.
Sam Macbale, the owner of the restaurant, told KOIN 6 News the suspect was not inside and was not a customer when the shooting occurred.
“It was completely out of the blue,” Macbale said. “A guy was walking by and was shooting, in fact, from this door.”
However, PPB reported they did not believe this was a random act where “somebody walked by and started shooting,” although they also said they didn’t believe Vasquez was the intended target.
After collecting DNA evidence from the bullet casings found at the September shooting, police discovered in December that the DNA samples they collected matched DNA records from a sexual assault kit tied to Edwards from when he was 17.
Police also linked the bullet casings found at the Silver Dollar crime scene to a separate shooting outside of Whelan’s Irish Pub that occurred last month.
According to police documents, surveillance cameras caught Edwards wearing the same black North face coast at both shootings.
Edwards will be back in court on April 6.
The investigation remains open, and PPB asks anyone with further information about the incident to contact Detective Jason Koenig at Jason.Koenig@portlandoregon.gov, 503.823.0889 or Detective William Winters at William.Winters@portlandoregon.gov, 503.823.0466.