Do you know who murdered 57 year old Jamie Brock? African-American/Black female Jamie D. Brock, age 57, kept the rhythm of a neighborhood bar going from behind the counter of Jamie's Place on Northeast Fremont Street in Portland. On November 26, 1991, at about mid-afternoon, two men stepped in hoping to buy peanuts and noticed something was wrong: the tavern was open, but the owner was nowhere in sight. They went next door to summon help.
Responding officers entered Jamie's Place at 1313 NE Fremont and found the 57-year-old bar owner had been shot to death, a sudden, violent end inside the small establishment she'd run for years.
Detectives quickly saw signs that the killing had the rough edges of a robbery. Money was missing from the cash register, and other property had been taken. A Portland police spokesman later said the till “apparently had been cleaned out,” an early clue that pointed investigators away from a personal dispute and toward a thief willing to turn a gun on a 57-year-old woman working her shift. The time of day—around 2:45 p.m.—and the ordinary errand that brought witnesses to the door fixed the moment in memory: an everyday scene fractured by a single, fatal act.
In the days that followed, no arrest was announced. The case joined the quiet ledger of Portland cold cases, the kind kept alive by brief summaries and family grief rather than courtroom arguments. Public records and memorial listings preserve only the starkest facts—her name, her age, the city she called home, the date she was taken—and the suggestion of motive, with no suspect publicly identified. Decades later, Jamie D. Brock remains listed among those lost to gun violence in Portland, with her killing still unsolved.
