On the evening of October 3, 2023, 21-year-old Marcel Da’jon Wagner, a Black/African American man, was fatally shot while riding as a passenger on a King County Metro bus in the White Center area of Seattle. Wagner appeared to be asleep in a rear seat near Southwest Roxbury Street and 15th Avenue Southwest when another passenger wearing a full-face ski mask boarded, sat across from him, and after about 12 minutes stood, pulled the stop cord and opened fire at point-blank range, striking Wagner in the head and neck. The shooter then fired additional rounds at the bus door, exited and fled; Wagner was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives reviewed bus and nearby business surveillance and identified the suspect as 17-year-old Miguel Rivera Dominguez. A friend who had been with Rivera Dominguez on the bus later told investigators he did not know the shooting would occur and that neither he nor Rivera Dominguez knew Wagner. Rivera Dominguez surrendered to the King County Sheriff's Office on November 6, 2023, and was charged as an adult with first-degree murder and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. No motive has been reported.

Did anyone on that bus or in the White Center area see anything that could help explain why Marcel Wagner was targeted?