Elias Salazar was 17 when he was shot in the head during a party at a mobile home park on the 800 block of North Volland Street in Kennewick, Washington. Police responded on the evening of Saturday, October 15, 2022; Salazar was taken to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland and later airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was pronounced brain dead on October 18, 2022.

Investigators say a neighbor’s security camera recorded a single gunshot and five young men fleeing the scene. Detectives identified 14-year-old Talen Trumble as the person who fired the gun. Trumble told police the group had been drinking, he was holding a firearm that belonged to Salazar, and it discharged while he was laughing with his finger on the trigger. Trumble was arrested, initially held on an assault charge, and later charged with second-degree manslaughter; the matter remained in juvenile court and investigators asked anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone at the party or nearby that night see something that could clarify what happened?