On the morning of January 26, 2024, 67-year-old Yuam Ming, a Chinese woman visiting family, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Tukwila Costco around 10:41 a.m. The King County Medical Examiner confirmed she died from a gunshot wound to the chest and ruled the death a homicide.

According to investigators, Ming and her sister were loading groceries when two people in a stolen white Porsche SUV approached. One of the men, identified as Salman Haji, then 19, allegedly tried to steal the sister’s purse. Ming intervened; Haji is accused of striking the sister with his gun and shooting Ming in the chest before the suspects fled in the stolen vehicle. First responders performed lifesaving measures but Ming died at the scene.

Police linked the stolen Porsche to an earlier incident that morning in which the same two men are said to have carjacked a 76-year-old woman on Queen Anne Hill and later tried to use her credit cards at a grocery store in Normandy Park. Investigators identified the suspects through fingerprints on the abandoned SUV and surveillance footage. Both men have been charged in Ming’s death.

If anyone was in the Tukwila Costco parking lot that morning or saw the stolen SUV, can you share what you remember?