PORTLAND, Ore. — The FBI is renewing a $15,000 reward for information relating to the murder of 25-year-old Danae Williams, three years after she was shot and killed while driving her car in Portland.
Williams and a friend were heading home from a restaurant on the night of May 12, 2021 and had stopped at a red light on Northeast MLK Boulevard when another car drove up and someone started shooting at them. They were both hit and injured, and Williams died the next day.
Authorities later said they believed the shooting was connected to a dispute between two rival gangs, but that Williams and her friend were innocent and had been targeted by mistake.
Detectives on the case said at the time that there may have been several witnesses who left the scene without talking to officers, and urged anyone with information to reach out to Portland police.
A year later, the Portland FBI office said no answers had emerged and announced that it would begin offering a $15,000 reward for information about the incident that leads to an arrest and conviction.
"Danae had nothing to do with gang violence, with guns, with crime, or anything like that," FBI Special Agent in Charge Kieran Ramsey said in May 2022. "She was simply in a car. That car was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
