On the evening of July 6, 2025, 18-year-old Paul Jacobo was fatally shot in Pasco, Washington, after what police describe as a botched robbery. Jacobo and a friend had met with two teenagers inside a Jeep on the 700 block of Agate Street when a 16-year-old from Kennewick allegedly produced a handgun to steal Jacobo’s necklace. The gun, later found to have no magazine, fell during a struggle and Jacobo picked it up and ran through nearby yards.

As Jacobo fled near North Sixth Avenue and West Agate Street, shots were fired from the Jeep and he was struck in the chest. He was pronounced dead in a driveway; an autopsy confirmed the cause as a gunshot wound. Pasco police arrested the two juvenile suspects: 16-year-old Edwin J. Magana and 15-year-old Moises Palomino Rodriguez. Magana has been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and drive-by shooting and will be tried as an adult; prosecutors have moved to transfer Palomino Rodriguez to adult court and he is also facing a second-degree murder charge. Magana has pleaded not guilty and the investigation is ongoing.

Did anyone in Pasco see or hear anything that night that might help clarify what happened inside the Jeep?