PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Melissa Jubane is being remembered by friends and family at one of her favorite parks in Hillsboro, one year after her murder and disappearance.
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“This was a woman with hobbies and interests and people that she loved. And her loss is deeply felt by us all,” said Ines, chairperson of the grassroots organization Gabriella Portland, who put on the memorial. “We held this vigil so that the community could come together and hear these stories together, to find out that we are not alone in our grief or our pain and our fear, and we can use this community to inspire action and change.”
On September 4, 2024, Jubane vanished. After she didn’t show up for her nursing job at Providence St. Vincent in Southwest Portland, a search commenced involving people from her social circle and even strangers.
Law enforcement officials eventually found her remains on September 7, 2024. Beaverton police arrested her neighbor, Bryce Johnathan Schubert, alleging that he committed the murder. He now faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse.
Though most details surrounding the case have remained sealed from the public, a court document filed by prosecutors claims Schubert had been “deliberately cruel” in his final moents of Jubane’s life…