Josue Isac Lopez Padilla was 20 when he was shot and killed in a parking lot in east Vancouver, Washington, on the evening of November 19, 2021. He had immigrated from Honduras with his mother and siblings about eight years earlier, helped with the family’s landscaping business, learned English, and became the second in his family to graduate from high school. He planned to study automotive technology at Clark College.

Around 8:30 p.m., a passerby flagged down paramedics after a man had been shot near a Shell gas station in the North Image neighborhood. A store employee reported hearing two gunshots, seeing two men run to a car and flee, then finding Lopez Padilla gravely injured next to the building. He was taken to a hospital and died of a gunshot wound to the pelvis.

Investigators identified a suspect, 19-year-old Alexandro Bolon Manrero, who was arrested with assistance from federal and regional task forces and initially charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutors say Manrero told police Lopez Padilla threatened him with a gun while allegedly tagging a wall; officers found spray paint cans and ammunition in Lopez Padilla’s backpack, and lab tests indicated a shot was fired from under his clothing during the encounter.

Does anyone have information about that night or recall seeing activity near the Shell station in North Image on November 19, 2021?