On August 27, 2023, 57-year-old Pepe Jaquez was fatally shot in Tacoma, Washington, after an argument in a bank parking lot at South 19th Street and Union Avenue. Jaquez was in the driver’s seat of his running SUV when he was struck in the head; first responders found him unresponsive and transported him to a hospital. His 50-year-old younger brother was also shot in the back as he fled on foot and was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Jaquez died of his wounds three days later.

The shooting followed an earlier evening meeting at a park after a woman Jaquez had been seeing asked to meet him there; when she did not appear, the brothers left and later encountered her boyfriend, William Pierre Pelkey, on a bicycle. Reports say an argument escalated to gunfire. The conflict was said to have grown out of a months-long affair and included an earlier incident in which Jaquez allegedly pulled a knife on Pelkey.

Anyone who witnessed the events in that parking lot or who has information about the lead-up to the shooting is asked to come forward.