Family of SE Portland homicide victim decries ‘senseless act of violence’

Hunter Sutherland Lantz Hecker, 30, of Portland

Hunter Sutherland Lantz Hecker, 30, of Portland died June 27 in a shooting in Southeast Portland.Portland Police Bureau

Family members of 30-year-old Hunter Sutherland Lantz Hecker of Portland provided additional details Wednesday in the June 27 shooting that killed Hecker on a Southeast Portland sidewalk.

Hecker, who helped develop the cocktail menu at Pearl District bar Silk Road, was with his girlfriend at a bar on Southeast 82nd Avenue near Woodstock Boulevard and was shot in front of the bar “in a senseless act of violence” around 11:40 p.m., according to a statement from the family and previously disclosed information from police.

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