Richard Utaifeau Taii, 31, was shot dead in Port Orchard, Washington, after a late-night confrontation over suspected stolen mail. The incident began when a Chevrolet Tahoe carrying Taii and two women, Priscilla Scott and Anna Paalogo, stopped near mailboxes on a residential street. A nearby resident, 39-year-old Chad Michael Landon Wilson, saw the SUV and believed its occupants were taking his mail. Instead of calling police, he armed himself with a 9mm handgun, followed the Tahoe about a mile, and used his pickup to block it in a cul-de-sac on Brady Place.

Surveillance video recorded a man shouting about his mail and then a single gunshot. Accounts differ on what happened next: Wilson told detectives the SUV accelerated toward him and he fired in fear of being run over; a woman in the passenger seat said Taii was trying to drive around Wilson when he exited his truck in a military stance and shot into the vehicle, striking Taii in the head. Taii was driven a short distance before the Tahoe crashed into mailboxes; he was pronounced dead at the scene after medics responded.

Did anyone in the area see the Tahoe or Wilson’s pickup the night this happened, or have information about interactions around the mailboxes?