Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced today that a Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Thomas Nathaniel Tibball, 25, to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Brian W. Logan, 52, in late 2022.
Incident
On November 13, 2022, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Portland Police Bureau officers responded to a reported shooting outside an apartment complex near SE 122nd Avenue and Burnside. The responding officers discovered a male victim, later identified as Brian Logan, suffering from a gunshot wound. Officers attempted life-saving efforts, but Mr. Logan died at the scene.
After canvassing the scene, PPB homicide detectives recovered surveillance video footage from the night of the shooting that showed defendant Thomas Tibball exiting his girlfriend’s apartment and walking to the adjacent street. The video shows Tibball walking out of the view of the cameras, but he can be heard confronting Logan, who was walking past the apartment with his rolling luggage. Tibabll can be heard telling Logan to keep walking or he would “pop” him. Tibball told Logan that he had until “three.” He then counted “one” and fired a single gunshot, which fatally struck Logan in the back. Surveillance video shows that Tibball quickly returned to his girlfriend’s apartment and left again about four minutes later wearing a different jacket.
Tibball was apprehended on December 1, 2022. At the time of the homicide, Tibball was on probation for one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon (with a Firearm) and another count of Identity Theft.
The DA’s Office presented the case to a grand jury, which returned a true bill of indictment on December 6, 2022, for one count of Murder in the Second Degree with a Firearm, one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon with a Firearm, and one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Tibball was arraigned on the indicted charges on December 12, 2022.
Plea and Sentencing
Deputy District Attorneys Reid Schweitzer and Christian Huettemeyer and Senior Deputy District Attorney Nathan Vasquez represented the state in this case. As part of a plea agreement negotiated with the defendant and his counsel, Tibball pled guilty on November 7, 2023, to one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree and one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon with a Firearm. Judge Christopher Marshall accepted the plea; he imposed the 20-year prison sentence yesterday.
The daughter of the victim appeared at sentencing. As part of her victim impact statement, relayed to the court by the prosecution, she said, “I lost my best friend in July of this year as well. These things cannot be taken back. People – family, loved ones – cannot be brought back. I am almost 26 years old now, without a father or best friend in less than 10 months of each other. We deserve better. They deserved better. We need to do better.”
Tibball was transferred from custody in Multnomah County to the Oregon Department of Corrections to serve his sentence.
The DA’s Office would like to thank PPB Detective Brad Clifton and MCDA Victim Advocate Emma Kane for their work on this case.
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