Hector Gonzalez Jimenez, a 27-year-old Hispanic man from Eagle Creek, Oregon, was in Tacoma for a weekend with friends when he was killed after meeting a dancer he had met at Dream Girls on Pacific Avenue. On the evening of August 24, 2024, he arranged to meet Ashley Danielle Arrieta at his Holiday Inn room on South C Street and sent her a $1,500 payment via Zelle. Hotel surveillance shows Gonzalez Jimenez arriving around 3:20 a.m. on August 25; Arrieta entered about 16 minutes later, followed shortly by Jamari Khayelle Webb.

Prosecutors say Webb confronted Gonzalez Jimenez at gunpoint, forced him to search his backpack and beat him when Gonzalez Jimenez reached for his own gun; Webb then shot him once in the chest. First responders who arrived later determined he had been killed, and the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide. Evidence recovered from the room included a bloody white slip-on shoe, a broken necklace and a Safeway receipt that tied the suspects to surveillance footage. Investigators also recovered Gonzalez Jimenez’s stolen phone near State Route 509.

Arrieta, 26, and Webb, 24, were arrested in mid-September and charged in the killing. If anyone knew Hector, his movements in Tacoma that weekend, or saw the pair around South C Street or Pacific Avenue that night, please share what was seen.