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Who murdered 18 year old Joshua Brewer in 1997?
Caucasian / White Joshua Brewer, age 18, spent the late summer night of August 9, 1997 standing with friends at the southeast corner of SE Milwaukie Avenue and Powell Boulevard in Portland, Oregon. Around 10:24 p.m., a group of unidentified Asian men pulled up. Words sharpened into a confrontation, the kind that gathers heat by the second. Then a small white car rolled to the curb, a passenger stepped out, and gunfire tore across the corner. Joshua Brewer, age 18, was struck and died at the sc ...Read More
Caucasian / White Joshua Brewer, age 18, spent the late summer night of August 9, 1997 standing with friends at the southeast corner of SE Milwaukie Avenue and Powell Boulevard in Portland, Oregon. Around 10:24 p.m., a group of unidentified Asian men pulled up. Words sharpened into a confrontation, the kind that gathers heat by the second. Then a small white car rolled to the curb, a passenger stepped out, and gunfire tore across the corner. Joshua Brewer, age 18, was struck and died at the sc ...Read More
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Joshua Brewer
November 7, 2022
Male
Caucasian / White
Portland
OR
1997-08-09
1979-06-02
18
Joshua
Brewer
11/23/2025
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