On March 11, 2020, Ozell Tyrece Tate, a 37-year-old Black man, was shot in an alley in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood and later died of a gunshot wound to the thigh. A passerby told a nearby officer about a fight in the Court G alley between South 15th and 16th streets; the officer found Tate with a gunshot wound and applied a tourniquet before Tate was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injury, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Witnesses said the confrontation began while Tate was seated in a car’s passenger seat when Germi Rashad Zeigler approached with a gun in his hoodie pocket and began yelling. A witness reported Tate held his hands up and appeared scared as Zeigler fired two shots, one striking Tate in the leg, after which Zeigler fled.

Who has information about that afternoon in Hilltop or saw Tate, the vehicle, or anyone leaving the alley around the time of the shooting?