Prosecutors say the suspect, already wanted in a teen’s killing, now faces rape, kidnapping and attempted murder charges in a separate case.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman’s whispered 911 call from a closet in a vacant Southeast Portland house led officers to a rescue, a neighborhood manhunt and the arrest of a man already wanted in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy, police said.
The case drew wide attention because the same early morning search that began as an assault response also ended months of police efforts to find Aquize G. Logan, 25. A Multnomah County grand jury has now added rape, kidnapping, assault and attempted murder charges tied to the Feb. 27 attack, while Logan still faces murder and other counts in the Nov. 16, 2025, shooting death of Marik Roscoe. The woman survived, but investigators say the allegations describe a violent attack inside an empty house and a chase that spilled into a residential block before dawn.
According to Portland police, the case turned on a call that came in at 1:44 a.m. Feb. 27. The caller whispered that she was hiding in a closet on the second floor of a vacant house and said she had been raped and struck with a hammer. She could not give dispatchers an exact address, but officers and call takers narrowed the location to the 3800 block of Southeast Ivon Street in the Richmond neighborhood. When officers reached the house, police said they looked through a window and saw “what appeared to be a man assaulting someone.” They forced emergency entry, and the suspect jumped from a second story window and ran. The woman then ran outside and officers called for medical help. Police sent her to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. As officers searched, they set a perimeter from Southeast Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard to Southeast 37th Avenue, and from Southeast Division Street to Southeast Taggart Street. At 2:36 a.m., the city sent an alert telling nearby residents to stay inside. Officers finally found the suspect at 6:39 a.m., hiding in a trailer parked in a driveway.
Investigators say the woman had been approached earlier that night in Portland’s North Park Blocks. Police said the suspect persuaded her to go with him, drove around for a time and eventually ended up at the vacant house in Southeast Portland. There, investigators allege, he broke into the home, then raped, choked and kicked her and struck her in the head with a hammer. Police said officers recovered a handheld hammer at the scene. The woman has not been publicly identified, and records made public so far do not say whether she knew Logan before that night. That gap remains one of the key unknowns in the case. Another open question is how long the woman was held before she managed to reach 911 without the suspect hearing enough to stop the call earlier. Police have not released audio from the call, but their public account makes clear that the dispatcher heard a man’s voice and then the line went dead. By then, officers already had enough detail to focus their search on the Richmond neighborhood house.
The arrest also tied the assault case to an earlier homicide investigation that had already shaken Portland. Logan had been sought for months in the Nov. 16, 2025, shooting death of Roscoe, a 14-year-old boy who was killed inside a home near Southeast 125th Avenue and Division Street in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood. Police said a 17-year-old boy and a 42-year-old man were also shot and survived, and a 19-year-old man was injured. Court records in that case say Logan is accused of entering the home and opening fire while Roscoe was in bed. Police have said they do not believe that shooting was random. When Roscoe was identified, Portland Police Chief Bob Day said the death marked the fifth time since 2023 that a minor in the city had been killed by homicidal violence. That earlier case explains why officers moved quickly once evidence from the Ivon Street scene suggested the suspect might be the same man detectives and U.S. marshals had already been trying to find.
The legal picture now stretches across two cases moving on separate tracks. In the newer case, the grand jury indictment adds 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. In the older case, Logan was already being held on charges that include first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree attempted murder, burglary, assault and weapons counts linked to the November shooting. On Thursday, local television stations reported that Logan refused to leave his jail cell for arraignment on the new charges and that the hearing was expected to take place in the cell after the judge finished the regular docket. No trial date has been announced in either case. Prosecutors have not said when they expect the assault victim’s case to move into pretrial hearings, and the homicide case from November also remains pending.
Neighbors said the police search changed the block before sunrise and left visible signs that lasted into the day. Residents told reporters they woke around 2 a.m. or 2:30 a.m. to police dogs, officers in yards and drones overhead. Brian Halpin, who lives nearby, said officers checked garages, backyards and even the cedar tub in his yard because “there’s a lot of places for someone to escape.” After police served search warrants, the front door of the house was off its hinges and a window was shattered, with glass scattered on the grass. A vehicle parked in the driveway was later towed away. Reporters at the scene also noted a for-sale sign outside, underscoring that the house was not occupied when police say the attack happened there. Those details gave the case a stark backdrop: an empty house, a trapped caller speaking in a whisper, a suspect running through fenced yards in the dark, and officers searching block by block until the neighborhood finally got word that the danger had passed.
As of Saturday, Logan remained jailed while the new indictment moved through court and the November homicide case stayed open. The next public steps are formal arraignment and later hearings in two prosecutions that became linked by one quiet call for help.
Author note: Last updated March 28, 2026.