Suspect found in Cold Case

Nearly thirty years after the death of a Portland resident, 57-year-old Roberto Garcia-Lopez was indicted by the Multnomah county grand jury in connection with a 1989 homicide in Northeast Portland.

On November 28, 1989, Portland Police Bureau Homicide Detectives began an investigation into the death of a 33-year-old Kuen Yin Ng. Mr. Ng, whose body was found on the rocky shores of the Willamette River, North of the Burnside Bridge under the I-5 ramp to I-84.

Cold Case Homicide Unit Detectives began reviewing the case in May 2010 and worked with the Oregon State Police Crime Lab to re-examine evidence in the case. DNA evidence identified Garcia-Lopez as the suspect.

Garcia-Lopez is currently in the Salt Lake County (UT) Jail on unrelated charges of Aggravated Murder, Aggravated Sexual Assault and Aggravated Robbery.

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