Papaloa Sauileone, 42, was killed in a street shooting in Tacoma in the pre-dawn hours of September 5, 2022. After buying a coffee at a gas station on East 72nd Street, he was walking near the intersection of East I Street when a green Chevy Malibu approached. An exchange of words occurred and a man inside the vehicle fired, striking Sauileone in the torso. He managed to run a short distance before collapsing; firefighters who responded at about 5:13 a.m. found him in the intersection and he was pronounced dead. The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide due to a gunshot wound to the torso.

Sauileone’s family remembers him as a big-hearted husband and father of six who loved playing the guitar and serenading his loved ones. Tacoma Police detectives tracked the green Malibu to Spanaway and, days after the shooting, arrested a 22-year-old man, Kevin ONeal Harvey Jr., in Kent. He was booked into the Pierce County Jail and charged with two counts of second-degree murder; court documents say no known connection or clear motive between Harvey and Sauileone had been identified.

Did anyone in the Tacoma area see the green Chevy Malibu or have information about that early-morning encounter?