In the early morning hours of June 18, 2025, 35-year-old Minh-Thuong T. Ly of Seattle was found dead in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked outside the El Pique Restaurant on the 14000 block of Ambaum Boulevard Southwest in Burien. Deputies from the King County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of gunfire shortly before 2 a.m.; the Medical Examiner later ruled Ly’s death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds.

The case was opened as a Major Crimes inquiry and investigators canvassed for witnesses and sought surveillance footage to determine motive and whether the attack was random or targeted. On June 28, detectives conducting surveillance on a vehicle of interest flagged by automated license-plate readers pursued it near South 152nd Street; a foot chase ended around 1 a.m. with several people taken into custody. Authorities confirmed those arrests were connected to Ly’s killing but did not immediately release names.

Does anyone have information about Ly, the restaurant area that night, or surveillance that could help the investigation?