PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) – Five people have been sentenced to prison for their roles in an execution-style killing of a Bend man in 2021, Gresham Police Department announced Friday.
After months of hearings, officials said final plea deals were reached in the case for the murder of 34-year-old Andrew Sherrell , who was found dead in Gresham with no shoes, no wallet, no phone, no ID, and broken zip ties found near his arms.
According to police, the incident happened the night of Sept. 24, 2021, when Gresham police responded to a report of a deceased person, later identified as Sherrell, near Northeast 189th Avenue and Northeast Portal Way.
Abandoned, derelict ‘pirate’ boats still a headache on Willamette River Based on Sherrell’s positioning and injuries, police determined he was killed by a single gunshot while kneeling on a curb.
During the investigation, detectives learned Sherrell was a low-level drug dealer who had outstanding debt to his dealer, identified as Cesar Estrada Nava.
According to police, Estrada Nava was also under pressure for substantial drug debt to his own dealer.
Suspected kidnapper shot by Salem officers early Friday morning Authorities discovered that Estrada Nava enlisted help from four others – identified as Kassandra Kitchens , D’Sean Baker, Christian Joshua “CJ” Wobbe, and Andrew Bushnell, in a plot that killed Sherrell.
The day of the murder, Sherrell and a friend drove from central Oregon to Portland’s Lloyd District, where Kitchens – who was Sherrell’s “romantic interest” – lured him to a parking lot for discount fentanyl, according to Gresham police.
Once Sherrell was inside Kitchen’s SUV, she drove him a block down the street to Estrada Nava, Baker, Wobbe, and Bushnell. Sherrell was then assaulted and forced into the back of an SUV and driven to a second location in Gresham while Sherrell’s hands, arms, legs, and feet were zip-tied together.
COVID lockdowns prematurely aged teen brains, University of Washington finds Officials said Sherrell was assaulted, and pistol whipped while in the backseat before he was placed on a dark sidewalk where he was shot and killed.
In the early morning of Dec. 13, 2021, multiple search and arrest warrants were completed by four SWAT teams which led to the arrest of four of the five suspects who were arrested and charged with murder.
The fifth suspect, Kitchens, was found and arrested after a pursuit in early 2022 .
Authorities announced Friday that Estrada Nava and Baker were sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Kitchens was sentenced to nine and half years in prison, Bushnell was sentenced to eight years in prison and Wobbe was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KOIN.com.
Local News
