On the evening of September 16, 2022, a celebration in Yakima, Washington, ended with three people dead after gunfire and a subsequent crash. Twenty-one-year-old Yaelin Arreola was driving a silver Audi near East Yakima Avenue and North First Street around 9:20 p.m., celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day with passengers when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire. Yaelin was struck in the head; a 21-year-old male passenger suffered an arm wound.

Yaelin’s 17-year-old boyfriend, Julio Lozano, who was waving a Mexican flag from the Audi, put Yaelin in the back seat and sped toward a hospital at an estimated 60 to 70 miles per hour. At Lincoln Avenue and North 3rd Avenue he ran a red light and collided with a Nissan Sentra, killing its occupants, 52-year-old Maria Norma Carillo-Reyes and her 21-year-old daughter Maria Cielo Torres Carillo. Yaelin was later taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she died. Reports say she had been pregnant with Lozano’s child.

Yakima Police’s Major Crimes and Gang Unit labeled the initial shooting gang-related.

Did anyone in the Yakima area witness the shooting or have information about the vehicle that pulled up before the gunfire?