Arturo Barrios-Romero, 37, was shot and killed in Mount Vernon, Washington, in the early morning hours of January 9, 2022. He was at an after-hours gathering in an apartment on Stanford Drive that continued after a night at a local drinking establishment. First responders arrived about 5:30 a.m. to reports of CPR in progress and found Barrios-Romero with a gunshot wound to his upper torso; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation identified two suspects. Isaac Torres, 29, was charged with second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm; authorities say the act was not premeditated but that Torres intended to kill Barrios-Romero. The host of the gathering, 33-year-old Jose Rosales Garcia, was arrested and charged with rendering criminal assistance and alien in possession of a firearm.

Are there witnesses who attended the gathering or anyone with information about what happened that morning who can help clarify the sequence of events?