A summer birthday party at the Central Avenue Pub in Kent, Washington, ended in a fatal shooting. On July 2, 2022, a large, social-media‑promoted gathering spilled into the pub’s parking lots. Shortly before 2 a.m., a fight broke out outside. Bobby E. Rodgers, 29, a Black/African American man and regular patron, was seen running out of the pub’s emergency exit toward the confrontation when a silver Honda CRV pulled up and someone inside opened fire into the crowd. Rodgers was struck in the head, taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, and died of his injuries. Another man suffered a shoulder wound from a stray bullet and survived.

Investigators say multiple surveillance cameras captured a man firing a .45 caliber handgun from the vehicle; seven spent .45 casings were recovered at the scene. Police later identified 19-year-old Rogelle M. Harris of Seattle and arrested him on unrelated armed robbery charges on August 16, 2022. While in custody for that case, he was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm in Rodgers’s death; prosecutors cited prior convictions that made firearm possession illegal and described firing into a crowd as showing extreme indifference to human life. Harris was held without bail and had an arraignment set for September 8, 2022.

Did anyone at the party know Rodgers or see the silver Honda CRV that night?