On the night of May 13, 1996, Joseph "Peanut" Littlejohn, a 20-year-old African-American man, was with an associate in the basement of a house on the 3800 block of NE 17th Avenue in Portland, Oregon. At around 10:20 p.m., the relative quiet of the evening was broken by the sound of gunfire. Shots were fired through a window of the basement, fatally wounding Littlejohn. He died at the scene, though his associate was not harmed in the incident.
Following the shooting, witnesses reported see
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