Tyrone Sero, 19, known to family as TJ, was a South Kitsap High School graduate from Port Orchard, Washington. He was described as outgoing, bubbly and loyal. His life ended in a violent kidnapping and murder that began with a planned marijuana sale.

In the early hours of October 20, 2021, Sero used Snapchat to arrange a meeting with Kannon Stephens. Surveillance footage shows him getting into the passenger seat of a silver Toyota 4-Runner in a South Kitsap parking lot just after midnight. He was then pulled into the rear of the SUV, where a struggle occurred and Stephens, who had been hiding in the back, shot Sero in the back of the head, killing him almost instantly.

After the killing, Stephens and two accomplices, Karlen Talent and Eli Gregory, drove to undeveloped property in Mason County, where Sero’s body was dismembered and burned for hours. Remains were later bagged and some discarded in a nearby river. Stephens turned himself in and confessed; Talent and Gregory were also arrested. All three were initially charged with first-degree murder. The family reported Sero missing and detectives identified the abduction on surveillance footage.

Did anyone in the Port Orchard or Mason County area see the silver Toyota 4-Runner around October 20, 2021, or have information about the meeting that led to Sero’s abduction?