On the evening of July 19, 2025, Darcey Ann Moore, 46, was one of three people fatally shot inside an apartment at the Hillcrest Terrace complex on Hillcrest Lane NE in Renton. Officers arriving just after 7:30 p.m. saw two victims through a sliding glass door and then found a third after entering; Moore, her 9-year-old daughter, and Moore’s sister Jamie Lee Ray, 39, all sustained fatal gunshot wounds. The King County Medical Examiner ruled Moore’s and Ray’s deaths homicides from multiple gunshot wounds, and court filings say each victim suffered two gunshot wounds.

Investigators say the suspected gunman had been at the home since the previous night and was in a dating relationship with Moore. Interior video described in charging documents shows a man believed to be the suspect handling a handgun in the bedroom where Moore was later found; the footage stops about an hour before officers arrived. Detectives arrested a 46-year-old man in Burien on July 20, and prosecutors charged Steve C. Vasquez, 46, with one count of first-degree aggravated domestic-violence murder for Moore and two counts of first-degree aggravated murder for the other deaths. Vasquez pleaded not guilty and bail was set at $10 million.

Neighbors and family held vigils and memorials after the killings that remembered Moore as a devoted mother. If anyone has information about what happened at the Hillcrest Terrace apartment on July 19, please come forward.