Leopoldo Nunez Parra, a 42-year-old farm laborer from Pasco, was killed on the evening of October 9, 2019, in Wallula, Washington. A dispute with a coworker inside the cab of a Ford F-550 escalated into gunfire; the coworker, Edgar Chavez Beltran, was in the passenger seat and fired 11 times, two rounds striking Nunez Parra in the head and killing him. Chavez Beltran initially told investigators Nunez Parra lunged at him after he put a phone in his pocket, then later testified at trial that he acted in self-defense, saying Nunez Parra appeared skittish and reached for the gun during a scuffle.

A Walla Walla County jury rejected the self-defense claim and in March 2021 found Chavez Beltran guilty of second-degree murder; the following month a judge sentenced him to 19 years in prison. Nunez Parra’s family remembered him as a caring husband, brother, uncle, and loving son.