On Sunday morning, November 16, 2025, in Portland's Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood, 14-year-old Marik Roscoe, a boy from Portland, was shot inside a home near Southeast 125th Avenue and Division Street. Police were called around 6:34 a.m. after reports of gunfire, and when officers arrived, they found a chaotic scene: multiple people wounded, shell casings, and a house that had suddenly become the center of a homicide investigation.
Officers gave medical aid at the scene before paramedics rushed the victims to area hospitals. Despite those efforts, Marik did not survive, and the medical examiner later ruled his death a homicide caused by a gunshot wound.
Inside the residence that morning were several others who were also caught in the gunfire. A 17-year-old male and a 42-year-old man had both been shot and were taken to the hospital, where they were reported to be expected to recover. A 19-year-old man suffered a more minor injury but was still drawn into the same burst of violence that ended Marik's life. The scene remained cordoned off for hours as detectives from the Portland Police Bureau's Homicide Unit documented evidence, interviewed shaken witnesses, and tried to reconstruct what had unfolded in those early-morning minutes.
From the outset, investigators signaled that this was not a random act. Officials said that people inside the home and those responsible for the shooting appeared to know one another, and that the violence grew out of an existing conflict rather than a stranger attack. At a news conference a few days later, Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day confirmed that detectives had identified suspects in the case, but that no names were being released to the public. He emphasized that the investigation was still in its early stages and that investigators were carefully working through leads, evidence, and witness accounts. As of the most recent reporting in late November 2025, no arrests had been made, and the case remained open.
Authorities repeatedly asked the community for help, urging anyone who had seen or heard something, or who had surveillance footage from the area around Southeast 125th Avenue and Division Street that morning, to come forward. They directed tips to the homicide unit via email, referencing case number 25-314623, a small but telling detail of how the killing of one teenager became another entry in Portland's growing tally of gun homicide investigations. Community-focused groups that partner with the police, such as Ceasefire, began reaching out to Marik's family and to the other victims, not only to offer support but also to help prevent any retaliation or further violence spiraling out of the tragedy. For neighbors and friends in Powellhurst-Gilbert, the shooting left a lingering unease: a quiet residential street now associated with police tape and flashing lights, a family suddenly planning a funeral instead of a future, and a young life remembered on gun-violence memorial pages and local news reports as yet another child lost to bullets in a city already struggling with grief.
