Brigido Noe Sauceda, 35, a Hispanic/Latino male, was found late on the night of January 26, 2019, inside a home in McMinnville after police were called about gunfire. Officers arrived just before 11 p.m. to the 1200 block of Northeast 10th Avenue and discovered him dead from a single gunshot wound. People who had been at the residence stayed and cooperated with investigators, and police emphasized there was no broader danger to the public as the night wore on. Though he died in McMinnville, authorities identified Sauceda as a resident of nearby Dayton.
In the days that followed, McMinnville police publicly identified Sauceda and continued working the case, but early statements gave no indication of a suspect being sought. Subsequent reporting by the local newspaper noted that investigators had eliminated “homicidal violence” as the cause of death and, months later, the agency was still working to determine the manner of death. Those updates, paired with the initial assurance that no one was outstanding from the scene, reflected the absence of any arrests or named suspects connected to Sauceda’s shooting.
Community memorial listings and regional news roundups preserved the essentials: the date, the single gunshot wound, and the location on Northeast 10th, while reiterating that the investigation remained ongoing without any public announcement of charges. Through it all, Sauceda’s name joined the quiet rolls of gun-death records for Yamhill County, leaving family and friends to honor him as investigators worked through a case that, at least publicly, yielded no arrests.
