Police say the man arrested after the rescue was already wanted in the killing of a 14-year-old boy.
PORTLAND, OR — A woman’s whispered 911 call from a closet inside a vacant Southeast Portland house led officers to a violent assault scene Feb. 27 and to the arrest of a man already wanted in a separate homicide case, police said.
Portland police said the suspect, 25-year-old Aquize Gerrian Tyquan Logan, now faces attempted murder, kidnapping, rape, sexual abuse and other charges tied to the attack that triggered an early-morning search in the Richmond neighborhood. The case drew added attention because Logan had already been sought for months in the November 2025 shooting death of 14-year-old Marik Roscoe, a killing that also left three other males injured. The new charges mean the man police had been hunting in one high-profile violence case is now accused in another, separate attack.
According to police, the case began at 1:44 a.m. on Feb. 27, when a 911 call taker received a call from a woman who was whispering that she was hiding in a closet, had been raped and hit with a hammer, and could not get away. She could not give an exact address, police said, but told dispatchers she believed she was in a vacant house on the second floor. Working from the call, officers narrowed the location to the 3800 block of Southeast Ivon Street. By the time the first officers reached the house, the dispatcher had heard a man’s voice and the line had gone dead. Police said officers looked through a window and saw what appeared to be a man assaulting someone inside. They then forced emergency entry. In the rush that followed, police said, the suspect jumped from a second-floor window and ran into the neighborhood.
The woman came out of the house as officers set a perimeter and was given immediate medical care before being taken to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Investigators later said she had been approached in the North Park Blocks and persuaded to go with the suspect before the pair drove around Portland and ended up at the empty house in the Richmond neighborhood. Police said the suspect broke into the house, then repeatedly raped, choked and kicked the woman and struck her in the head with a hammer. Officers recovered a handheld hammer at the scene, investigators said. What remains unclear from the public record is how long the woman was inside the house before she called 911, how the suspect first made contact with her beyond the encounter in the park blocks, and whether prosecutors believe the attack was planned in advance or escalated after the two were already together. Authorities also have not publicly described the woman’s age.
After the suspect fled, officers from Portland police were joined by other resources, including East Precinct officers, and authorities established a perimeter that stretched from Southeast César E. Chávez Boulevard to Southeast 37th Avenue and from Southeast Division Street to Southeast Taggart Street. Residents were told to stay inside and lock doors and windows while officers searched yard to yard. Police also brought in a Gresham Police Department K-9 unit and drone team, along with Portland police air support and a K-9 team, according to the bureau. The search lasted several hours. At 6:39 a.m., officers found Logan hiding in a trailer parked in a driveway within the perimeter and arrested him, police said. For neighbors, the case turned a quiet residential area into a sealed-off crime scene before sunrise, with officers moving house to house and public alerts warning people to shelter in place until the all-clear was issued.
The arrest also tied directly into a separate homicide investigation that had already placed Logan on police radar. Police said Logan had been wanted on an outstanding warrant issued after a Nov. 16, 2025, shooting in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood. In that case, investigators said, 14-year-old Marik Roscoe was killed by a gunshot wound. A 17-year-old, another 17-year-old and a 42-year-old male were also injured but survived. Court records described in local reports allege the shooting happened inside a Southeast Portland home and that Roscoe was shot while he was in bed. Police have said they did not believe that attack was random. When Logan was booked after the Feb. 27 search, he was already facing charges tied to Roscoe’s death and the wounding of the other victims, including first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder, burglary, assault, unlawful use of a weapon, felon in possession of a firearm and menacing. Those allegations remain separate from the new sex-crimes and assault case.
A Multnomah County grand jury later returned an indictment in the February assault case, allowing police to release more details. The new charges announced by police include 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. Local television station KATU reported that Logan refused to leave his jail cell for an arraignment on the new charges and that the proceeding was expected to be handled at the jail after the judge completed the day’s docket. As of the latest public updates, authorities had not announced a trial date in either case. Police also have not publicly said whether additional victims could be tied to the February case or whether the woman knew Logan before the encounter in the park blocks.
The details that have emerged so far show a case built around quick decisions by the caller, dispatchers and patrol officers in the middle of the night. Police have credited the woman’s covert call with giving them just enough information to find the house before the attack could continue unchecked. Officers said the dispatcher’s loss of contact after hearing a man’s voice increased the urgency. The rescue itself came only after officers looked through a window and decided to break in, a step that forced the suspect to run and sent police into a long neighborhood search. The case has also underscored how one violent-crime investigation can collide with another: the man officers say they found after the Richmond search was not just a fleeing assault suspect but someone homicide detectives and U.S. marshals had already been trying to locate for months in the Roscoe killing.
For now, Logan remains at the center of two serious criminal cases in Multnomah County, one tied to the November killing of a teenager and another tied to the February rape and hammer attack that police say ended only after a whispered 911 call. The next milestone is further court action on the new indictment and the pending homicide case.
Author note: Last updated March 28, 2026.