Dennis Parker, 41, was shot dead on a sidewalk in Tacoma, Washington, on October 23, 2023. Police had been called the day before about a disturbance at the Lakeside Landing Apartments where Parker was reportedly armed with a knife after several residents complained of him banging on doors and walls. The next afternoon a female resident again reported Parker banging on her door; her 31-year-old boyfriend, Christopher Jadwick Lynch, went to the complex and an encounter on the nearby sidewalk ended with Parker found unresponsive from a single gunshot wound to the chest and later pronounced dead.

The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide. Lynch was taken into custody and charged with two counts of second-degree murder; a not guilty plea asserting self-defense was entered on his behalf and he is being held on $1 million bail. Detectives say surveillance video shows Parker did not advance toward Lynch, who was standing about five to eight feet away and is seen with a gun already drawn before Parker falls, prompting investigators to describe the shooting as unprovoked.

Has anyone who lived at Lakeside Landing that week seen or heard anything that might shed light on what happened that afternoon?