On the night of May 7–8, 2022, 56-year-old Reginald Taylor Sr. was shot outside the Diplomatz Motorcycle Club on the 5400 block of South Tacoma Way. Taylor and a friend had been denied entry because the event was members only and waited outside. Witnesses say an argument over a racial slur turned physical, and during the fight a man identified as Joice Duane Williams allegedly produced a handgun and shot Taylor once in the abdomen. Officers arrived about 2:49 a.m.; Taylor was found unresponsive and died at the scene. The Pierce County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Detectives used witness statements, surveillance footage and cell phone data to identify 45-year-old Joice Duane Williams as the primary suspect. Acting on tips he might flee to California, Tacoma police arrested Williams in Tacoma on May 25, 2022. He was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm and pleaded not guilty.

Taylor was a father of six and a grandfather of fourteen. Are there witnesses or anyone with additional information about what happened outside the club that night?