Seventeen-year-old Cameron Wilson was killed in the early hours of May 13, 2019, in a restaurant parking lot near Pacific Highway East and Willow Road East in Fife, Washington. A high school senior preparing to study computer science at Seattle University, Cameron enjoyed building computers and was remembered by family as kind, funny, and quirky. He was found with a fatal gunshot wound and had no identification on him; family and friends later helped police identify him after he failed to return home.

Investigators tied the killing to a dispute over stolen marijuana. Charging documents say Cameron had taken a large quantity of marijuana from an associate of 21-year-old Shawn Cooke months earlier. Surveillance showed someone matching Cameron’s description walking as a Chrysler Sebring entered the area; witnesses and records later connected Cooke’s car and his communications with Cameron shortly before the shooting. A warrant for Cooke’s arrest was issued in September 2019 and he was charged with first- and second-degree murder; he was later arrested in a New Orleans suburb and extradited to Pierce County, where he pleaded not guilty.