Antonio Malik Douglas was 17 when he was fatally shot while sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car on the 3700 block of Marine View Drive in Tacoma on the night of December 4, 2018. He was struck in the torso, driven to St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way where he arrived about 11:40 p.m., and was pronounced dead shortly afterward.

Charging documents describe the group of friends in the car smoking marijuana and passing around a handgun. Another 17-year-old, Dorricko Jovell Jimerson-Easterling, later told investigators he removed the clip and pulled the trigger, saying he did not believe the gun was loaded. Jimerson-Easterling was arrested, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm, and under a plea agreement was handled in juvenile court and sentenced to about three years in Juvenile Rehabilitation. Family members said Antonio had been a positive influence on Jimerson-Easterling.

Antonio’s family remembered him as loving, helpful, a leader to his younger brothers, and active in wrestling, football, working on cars and youth outreach through his church. He had signed up as an organ donor. Does anyone who knew Antonio or was in that area that night have additional information to share?