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Sergio Salinas-Gonzales, 32, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Yakima, Washington, in the early hours of July 17, 2023. Around 2:00 a.m. at East Nob Hill Boulevard and 18th Street, shots were fired from a vehicle that pulled alongside the car in which Salinas-Gonzales was a passenger; he was struck in the neck and later died at Multicare Yakima Memorial Hospital after being taken there in a private vehicle.

Court documents say the confrontation began after both cars left a local restaurant and the other vehicle attempted to race Salinas-Gonzales’s car. Yakima police used the city’s FLOCK camera system to identify and recover the suspect vehicle at a Yakima residence later that day. Investigators named 30-year-old Juan Rosales-Montes De Oca as the primary suspect and announced charges including aggravated first-degree murder, drive-by shooting, first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, and two counts of first-degree assault; officers warned he should be considered armed and dangerous. No arrest had been made in the days after the shooting.

Does anyone who was in the area that night or who knew Sergio have information that could help investigators?