John Marcus Romanger, 25, a White/Caucasian male, was shot and killed on February 14, 2019, inside an apartment at the Evergreen Meadows complex in the 900 block of Southeast 187th Avenue in Gresham, Oregon. Officers responding just after 1 p.m. found him dead at the scene; records list him as having been born October 22, 1993.
Detectives identified 23-year-old Schwanna S. Waters as the shooter and arrested her the next day.
She was initially booked on a first-degree manslaughter charge, but prosecutors later upgraded the case: on March 5, 2019, Waters was arraigned on two counts of murder with a firearm and was held without bail.
According to contemporaneous reporting, Waters told authorities she fired because she believed Romanger was a robber inside her home. Prosecutors subsequently asserted that Romanger was not committing a crime when he was shot, and the case was pursued as murder rather than a negligent or reckless killing. Public records and memorial listings confirm Romanger’s identity and age; no additional victims were named in the incident.
Romanger’s death drew notice beyond the immediate neighborhood, with obituary and memorial pages marking his passing and local outlets following the criminal case. Court outcomes beyond the upgraded charges were not reported in the sources reviewed here.
