Sean Rashad-Odell Howell, 33, was killed in the early morning hours of September 6, 2020, after an altercation in the parking lot of Christie’s Cabaret on South Tucson Boulevard. A verbal dispute that reportedly involved gang affiliations escalated into a physical fight between Howell and 25-year-old Dimitri Romero, during which Romero produced a handgun and shot Howell. Multiple people reportedly fired weapons in the parking lot afterward.

Howell was dropped off at Banner University Medical Center South with life-threatening injuries and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Deputies pursuing a speeding vehicle that fled the scene stopped the driver, identified as Romero, after a crash; he attempted to flee on foot and was arrested and booked into the Pima County Jail on charges including first-degree murder and being a prohibited possessor of a firearm. Investigators described the shooting as gang-related.

Police later said that Howell had been identified as the primary suspect in a separate 2019 homicide, based on latent palm prints linking him to that earlier death. If anyone knew Howell, his movements that night, or witnessed the shooting at Christie’s Cabaret, please share what is known with investigators.