Prosecutors say the same predawn rescue in a vacant Richmond neighborhood house also ended a months-long search for a man already wanted in the killing of a 14-year-old boy.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman’s whispered 911 call from a closet inside a vacant Southeast Portland house led officers to a rescue, a neighborhood lockdown and the arrest of a man already wanted in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy, police and prosecutors said.
The case drew intense attention because it merged two serious investigations in a matter of hours. Police said the woman survived a violent assault inside an empty house in the Richmond neighborhood, and the suspect who fled through the dark was identified as Aquize G. Logan, 25, whom detectives had already been trying to find in the November 2025 killing of Marik Roscoe. A Multnomah County grand jury has now added attempted murder, kidnapping, rape and other charges tied to the Feb. 27 attack, while the earlier homicide case remains pending.
Police said the first call came in at 1:44 a.m. Feb. 27, when a woman whispered to a Bureau of Emergency Communication call taker that she was hiding in a second-floor closet, had been raped and struck with a hammer, and did not know the address of the vacant house where she had been trapped. Officers and dispatchers narrowed the search to the 3800 block of Southeast Ivon Street near Southeast Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard. When officers arrived, Portland police said, they looked through a window and saw “what appeared to be a man assaulting someone.” They forced emergency entry, and the suspect jumped from a second-story window and ran into the neighborhood. The woman then ran outside and was taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police set a perimeter, sent a shelter-in-place alert to nearby residents at 2:36 a.m., searched yard to yard for hours with drones and police dogs, and arrested Logan at 6:39 a.m. while he was hiding in a trailer parked in a driveway.
Investigators said the woman had been approached earlier that night in Portland’s North Park Blocks. According to police, Logan convinced her to go with him, drove around with her for a time and eventually ended up at the vacant house in Southeast Portland. Prosecutors now allege that once inside, he broke into the home, then repeatedly raped, choked and kicked the woman and hit her in the head with a hammer. Police said officers recovered a handheld hammer at the scene. The woman has not been publicly identified, and police have not said whether she knew Logan before that night. Authorities also have not publicly answered how long she was held before she reached 911, or what first led the suspect to that specific house. Police have said only that the line went dead after the dispatcher heard a man’s voice, leaving officers to race toward a location they had pieced together from fragments.
The arrest also pulled an older homicide case back into view. Logan had already been wanted for months in the Nov. 16, 2025, shooting death of Roscoe, who was 14. Portland police said officers responded around 6:34 a.m. that day to a shooting inside a home near Southeast 125th Avenue and Division Street in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood. Roscoe died of a gunshot wound, according to police and the medical examiner. A 17-year-old boy and a 42-year-old man were also shot and survived, and a 19-year-old man was injured. Police said they did not believe that shooting was random. Court reporting by local outlets said prosecutors accuse Logan of entering the home and opening fire while Roscoe was in bed. That earlier case helps explain why officers moved quickly once evidence from the Ivon Street house suggested the fleeing suspect was the same man homicide detectives and U.S. marshals had already been trying to locate.
The setting of the Feb. 27 rescue gave the case a stark shape that neighbors said they will not soon forget. By daylight, the house on Ivon Street showed the force of the entry and the scope of the search. Reporters at the scene described a front door knocked off its hinges, a shattered window and glass scattered across the grass. Police later towed a vehicle from the driveway. A for-sale sign stood outside, underscoring that no one was supposed to be living there when the attack happened. Residents told local television stations they woke around 2 a.m. or 2:30 a.m. to officers in yards, police dogs moving between fences and drones overhead. Brian Halpin, who lives nearby, said officers checked garages, backyards and even a cedar tub in his yard because the block had “a lot of places for someone to escape.” That search image — a quiet residential street turned into a sealed grid before sunrise — became one of the defining details of the case.
The legal picture now stretches across two prosecutions moving on separate tracks. In the newer case, police said a grand jury indictment returned this month added second-degree attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping, two counts of first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy, four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault, felony strangulation, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of first-degree burglary. In the older case, Logan was already being held on charges that include first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree attempted murder, burglary, assault and weapons charges tied to Roscoe’s death and the injuries to three other people. Local television station KATU reported Thursday that Logan refused to leave his jail cell for arraignment on the new charges and that the hearing was expected to be handled there after the judge completed the regular docket. As of the latest public reports, no trial date had been announced in either case.
The woman’s call remains the center of the story because nearly every official account turns on its quiet, incomplete details. She did not know where she was. She could not safely speak at full volume. Dispatchers had to work from a whispered description of danger inside a vacant house, while patrol officers tried to narrow an address in the dark and move quickly enough to stop an attack already in progress. Police have not released the recording, and they have not publicly described the woman’s recovery beyond saying her injuries were serious but not life-threatening. That leaves gaps in the public timeline. But the broad outline is clear: the call brought officers to the right house, forced the suspect into flight and ended a search that had been open since November. What began as a hidden plea for help in a closet became the turning point in two major Portland cases at once.
As of the latest public updates, Logan remained jailed, the assault case was moving toward formal court hearings, and the homicide prosecution tied to Roscoe’s death was still pending. The next public milestones are further arraignment and scheduling proceedings in Multnomah County court.
Author note: Last updated March 29, 2026.