The arrest that ended a neighborhood manhunt also opened a new criminal case with charges including rape, kidnapping and attempted murder.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland manhunt that ended with the arrest of a suspect in a teen’s killing began with a quiet plea for help, authorities said, when a woman whispered to a 911 operator that she was trapped in a closet inside a vacant Southeast Portland house.
That call, placed early Feb. 27, set off a chain of events that prosecutors now say supports a separate indictment against 25-year-old Aquize G. Logan. Police announced that Logan, already wanted in the November 2025 shooting death of 14-year-old Marik Roscoe, has since been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, assault, strangulation and burglary in connection with the February attack.
Police said the caller told dispatchers she had been attacked with a hammer and raped and that she could not get away. She did not know where she was, but she knew she was on the second floor of a vacant home. The line dropped after a dispatcher heard a man’s voice, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Officers and dispatchers then worked backward from the few details they had and focused on the 3800 block of Southeast Ivon Street in the Richmond neighborhood. When officers reached the house, they could see what appeared to be an assault through a window, police said. They forced entry to rescue the woman, and the suspect bolted by jumping from the second floor. The woman then fled the house and was treated by emergency responders before being taken to a hospital.
Investigators later said the assault had started hours earlier, after the woman was approached in downtown Portland’s North Park Blocks. Police said Logan persuaded her to go with him, drove around with her for some time and eventually brought her to the empty house in Southeast Portland. There, investigators allege, he broke into the building and attacked her repeatedly, raping her more than once, choking and kicking her, and striking her in the head with a hammer. A handheld hammer was recovered as evidence, police said. Officials have said the woman suffered serious injuries but was expected to survive. Authorities have not released her name, and they have not publicly answered whether she and Logan knew each other before the encounter. Those unanswered details remain important as the case moves through court.
The arrest itself also carried larger significance because Logan had already been under active investigation in Roscoe’s death. Police said he had been sought for months after the Nov. 16, 2025 shooting near Southeast 125th Avenue and Southeast Division Street in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood. Roscoe was killed, and three other males were injured. The medical examiner later ruled the boy’s death a homicide by gunshot wound. When officers recognized evidence pointing to Logan during the February assault response, the rescue call became the break that ended the homicide search. Police locked down part of the Richmond neighborhood, urged residents to stay indoors and built a perimeter that covered several blocks while officers searched yards, driveways and structures before sunrise.
That search lasted for hours. According to police, Portland officers were joined by Gresham police with a drone team and K-9 support, while Portland also deployed its own air support and dog team. Officers eventually found Logan hiding in a trailer parked in a driveway inside the perimeter. Police said he was arrested at 6:39 a.m. The arrest closed the immediate neighborhood emergency, but it did not close the investigation. Detectives with the Portland Police Sex Crimes Unit kept working the February case, and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office later took the evidence to a grand jury. The indictment produced a long list of charges, including second-degree attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping, two counts each of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy, four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, attempted first-degree assault, second-degree assault, felony strangulation, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of first-degree burglary.
The story now stands at the intersection of two violent case files: one involving the death of a teenage boy and three other wounded victims, and another centered on a woman’s account of being lured, trapped and violently attacked inside an empty home. The physical details of the scene, the dropped 911 call, the rescue entry and the long neighborhood search have all become part of the public record released by police after the indictment. For prosecutors, those details show how the assault investigation developed. For the city, they explain why a homicide suspect who had been missing for months was finally found in a residential driveway after dawn.
As of now, Logan faces the original murder-related case and the newer indictment tied to the February assault. The next steps are expected to play out in Multnomah County court as prosecutors move both matters forward and additional hearings are scheduled.
Author note: Last updated March 30, 2026.