PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Marshals arrested a man connected to a 2017 deadly shooting outside a club in Beaverton.
Jimmy Pierce, 35, was taken into custody on Wednesday. He is accused of shooting and killing Ramon Harris, who was 34 years old at the time.
On May 19, 2017, Washington County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) deputies responded to the Xpose club on Southwest Canyon Road in the Raleigh Hills neighborhood around 1:35 a.m. Harris was shot multiple times outside the club shortly after arriving with a large group, WCSO said. He was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and did not survive.
At the time, deputies said they believed the shooting was not random. They did not publicly clarify how Pierce and Harris knew each other, and did not release information about what led up to the shooting.
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Investigators worked on the murder case over the next several years. On April 22, 2022, they presented it to a Washington County grand jury, which issued an indictment. A felony warrant was then issued for Pierce's arrest and the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force took him into custody.
Pierce is being held in the Multnomah County Detention Center. He is charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and felon in possession of a firearm, in addition to unrelated warrants.
