On the morning of April 4, 2024, a shooting in the IHOP parking lot in Federal Way, Washington, killed 2-year-old Synsyr Lewis. The boy was in a car with his father and a 1-year-old sibling while waiting to pick up his mother. Around 10 a.m., a light-colored Hyundai Sonata entered the lot, circled the family’s vehicle, then stopped in front of it. A person exited the Sonata and fired about 15 shots into the windshield. Synsyr’s father pushed the children down and later drove the critically injured toddler to St. Francis Hospital; Synsyr was transferred to Harborview Medical Center and died from a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators say the father was the apparent target and that he fired back as the suspect fled.

Authorities later identified two suspects. On October 2, 17-year-old Jayson Jack, a cousin of Synsyr’s mother who was 16 at the time of the shooting, was arrested and charged as an adult with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder; surveillance footage and ammunition from Jack’s room reportedly matched casings from the scene. On December 18, 31-year-old Jerome Lewis was arrested in Alameda, California and accused of driving a stolen getaway car; his DNA was reportedly found on the steering wheel and gear shifter.

Did anyone see the Sonata in the IHOP lot that morning or notice people acting suspiciously near the restaurant?