Isaiah J. Mayshack, 31, was killed in a pre-dawn shooting in Bellingham’s Roosevelt neighborhood on October 16, 2022. Around 3:18 a.m. police were dispatched after a 911 call from the 2300 block of Valencia Street reporting a shooting; Mayshack was brought to PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center by private vehicle with gunshot wounds and later died. Another man was also seriously injured.

Investigators described the encounter as tied to a drug transaction and an attempted robbery. The 911 caller, identified as 28-year-old Matthew Roberts of Eugene, Oregon, was found with an unloaded handgun and quantities of cocaine and pills containing fentanyl. A bloody trail led from where Mayshack was found to an apartment on Texas Street, and investigators concluded both Mayshack and Roberts shot each other with different firearms.

Roberts was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, drive-by shooting, and drug charges. Two other men were later arrested: 26-year-old Darian Polee, believed to have planned the robbery with Mayshack, and 24-year-old Wayne Sewell, alleged to have been in the vehicle and to have shot Roberts in the back after Roberts shot Mayshack. If anyone has information about the October 16 shooting or the people involved, please share what is known.