Lino Cerafin Shepard, 21, was fatally shot on November 5, 2020, in an apartment near Tacoma, Washington. The shooting happened in the 2400 block of 100th Street Court South while Shepard was visiting his sister’s fiancé. Also present was 27-year-old acquaintance Xavier Black. Charging documents say tensions rose when Shepard reportedly “mean mugged” Black; the sister’s fiancé stepped into a bedroom to intervene, and moments later Black shot Shepard in the neck and chest. Shepard died at the scene.

After the shooting Black fled but was arrested later that day at an apartment complex in Steilacoom following a brief standoff with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. He was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and pleaded not guilty. Shepard’s sister said he had schizophrenia and that his blank stare could be misread, though she did not believe that explained the shooting; she suggested the shooter may have been paranoid and could have snapped.

Does anyone have information about Lino Shepard, his movements that day, or witnesses who saw what happened inside the apartment?