Portland Police have announced indictments against two men on murder charges relating to a 15-year-old cold case. 

Shane Hall, 36, and Khang Tran, 30, were both charged with murder by a Cumberland County Grand Jury on Dec. 8, related to the 2008 murder of Frank Williams, 37, in Portland. 

“We hope this helps his family find closure, knowing that someone will be held accountable for his death,” Interim Portland Assistant Police Chief Robert Martin said Monday. 

Williams was beaten and stabbed at the Fox Street Soccer fields on the corner of Fox and Anderson streets on Aug. 16, 2008. In Aug. 2023, on the 15th anniversary of the murder, the FBI announced a $10,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. On Monday, Martin declined to discuss the case, or whether the $10,000 reward played a role in Friday’s indictments. 

Martin also said little about Hall and Tran, only indicating “they had connections to the City of Portland,” and that both were already serving prison sentences for unrelated crimes. Martin said he did not know exactly where the two were imprisoned, but said Hall was in Maine. 

Martin said he spoke with Williams’ family on Friday, after the indictments were handed down. 

“It’ll take a while, I think, for it to set in with them,” he said. 

Despite the indictments, Martin said the $10,000 reward is still active.  

“We know that there were other people there,” he said. “We would like anybody who was there to come forward and corroborate the information that we already have and solidify our indictments.”