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Crime Stoppers Featured Case #20-25 - Homicide of Gus Komas (Photo) - 09/23/20

The Portland Police Bureau, in partnership with Crime Stoppers of Oregon, is asking for the public's help to solve the homicide of 50-year-old Gus Komas.

On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at approximately 4:30 a.m., Portland Police officers responded to Northeast Ivy Street and Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on the report of a person down in the street, possibly a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.

Officers found a man lying on Northeast Ivy Street, west of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, near the Chevron gas station. The man was unconscious, but breathing. He was transported to the hospital by ambulance, where he died hours later.

The Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy on the victim, 50-year-old Gus Dino Komas of Portland, and determined the manner of death to be homicide. Based on the investigation, detectives believe Mr. Komas was assaulted, not struck by a vehicle.

According to the family, Mr. Komas wanted to grow his hair out and in lieu of doing that, he would often wear a long, grey, dreadlocked hairpiece. One of the photos shows this hairpiece, which could give Mr. Komas a different appearance.

The Portland Police Bureau hopes that releasing these different photos, provided by family, may help a potential witness recall anything that they could provide to detectives regarding this incident.

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