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Trevonta Billie Steven Burks, an 18-year-old Black / African American man, was shot and killed on February 4, 2020, in broad daylight in a strip mall parking lot near Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard and Northeast Stapleton Road in Vancouver, Washington. The shooting began after a verbal dispute between Burks and 20-year-old acquaintance Antoine Steven Archer escalated into a physical fight. Archer reportedly exited a vehicle, produced a firearm and shot Burks as he turned to flee; Burks was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds.

Surveillance video from a nearby smoke shop captured the argument, the struggle and the shooting. Archer checked into an urgent care clinic soon after with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his hand; detectives questioned him at the hospital and he reportedly expressed remorse, saying he did not mean to hurt anyone and that he had been shooting at the ground. Archer was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and was later released on bail.

Did anyone in the area see or record the incident, or have information about any vehicles or people who left the scene?