He said North acted in self-defense and Graham was driving aggressively.įurther investigation revealed the passenger was actually North's adult son. Representatives for the company said they purchased the company North claimed to own, but they didn't have an office in Eugene and had no record of North working there.Ī passenger riding in North's car claimed to have been picked up while hitchhiking on I-5. When police called the number listed for the business North named, it went to a different company in Salem. Police contacted the business where the shooting occurred and found North did not have an account with the business North named. North told officers he owned a construction company and that he had pulled into Pipebend Place NE because he needed to go to the pipe warehouse near the location of the shooting.

He said he came from Eugene for a construction job in Salem. When police interviewed North, he said he acted in self-defense. She got out of the car and started yelling and walking toward North - who she said was holding a firearm by his side - but stopped when he started yelling at her to get back.Īs she went to help Graham, the woman said she saw North kick a gun that had been on the ground about an inch or two from Graham's feet. She said she had been looking down at her phone until she heard the booms, but when she looked up, she saw Graham on the ground through the rearview mirror. Shortly after, the woman said, she heard 'two loud booms' in 'close succession.'

She said North parked his Volkswagon behind them and Graham got out of the car. 50 caliber handgun lying in the street behind North's car North, who was standing near a gray Volkswagon Golf at the scene, was detained. Police found Graham dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. 26, 2020, to reports of a shooting in the 3300 block of Pipebend Place NE.

Salem police officers responded the afternoon of Oct. He was accused of yelling racial slurs at Graham and killing him because he was Black. The jury found North not guilty of a first-degree bias crime charge. The sentence came one week after a Marion County jury found North guilty of murdering Herman Leslie Graham III, 48, in October 2020. Marion County Judge Courtland Geyer sentenced Manuel Elisha North, 48, to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years. A Eugene man charged with the murder and a bias crime for shooting a Black man in east Salem following a road rage incident was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.

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