GRESHAM, OR -- Five people were sentenced to a combined 65 years in prison for their involvement in the death of Andrew Sherrell (pictured), of Bend. Sherrell was killed, execution style, in September of 2021. Gresham Police found his body without shoes, his wallet or phone. Broken zip-ties were next to his arms and hands and the 34-year-old's positioning led investigators to believe he'd been kneeling on the curb when he was shot. 

The East County Major Crimes Team worked with Bend Police, Redmond Police and the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, in addition to Portland-area detectives. Over the next few months, they learned Sherrell was a low-level drug dealer who owed money to his dealer, Cesar Estrada Nava. Estrada Nava also owed a substantial debt to his own supplier. According to Gresham Police, Estrada Nava enlisted Kassandra Kitchens, D'Sean Baker, CJ Wobbe and Andrew Bushnell to help kill Sherrell. 

On the day of his death, Sherrell and a friend drove from Central Oregon to Portland's Lloyd District, unaware of the plot to kill him. Kitchens lured Sherrell to a parking lot with an offer of discount fentanyl. He got in her car and she drove him down the street to where the four men were waiting. 

Detectives say Sherrell was assaulted, zip-tied, driven to various locations and eventually killed with a single gunshot on the sidewalk of an industrial area. 

Four of the five suspects were arrested in December 2021 and the fifth was taken into custoday after a pursuit with Portland Police in 2022. After years of motions, hearings and thousands of pages of documents, prosecutors settled the case with plea agreements this month. Estrada Nava and Baker were each sentenced to 20 years, Kitchens to 115 months, Bushnell to 100 months and Wobbe to 90 months.