On the afternoon of November 11, 2021, 39-year-old Uso Hale was fatally shot after getting into a light grey Audi A5 at a Mobil gas station in Federal Way, Washington. The meeting had been arranged with 24-year-old Robert Nelson III and was reportedly about the sale of blue pills worth about $2,000; investigators were told a robbery of Nelson by Hale had occurred the day before. Witnesses at the station heard gunshots and a bullet was later found lodged in a station window.

Nelson drove several miles from the gas station and left Hale’s body in a watery ditch in the 4600 block of S. 352nd Street in unincorporated King County. Neighbors discovered the body the next day, November 12. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Hale died of multiple gunshot wounds, at least seven to the cheek, chin, neck, thigh, arm and torso; the manner of death was homicide.

Police identified Nelson through witness information, surveillance footage and phone records placing him near where the body was found. He was arrested on November 24, 2021; a search of his apartment turned up a box and a magazine for a .45-caliber Sig Sauer handgun, though the firearm itself was not recovered. Does anyone have information about Hale, his movements that day, or the events at the Mobil station?