Ashlee-Jo McClelland was 20 when she was fatally shot inside her Port Orchard apartment on Sidney Avenue on November 4, 2018. A North Kitsap High School graduate and dietary aide at St. Anthony’s Hospital, she was a mother to a young daughter. After the shooting she was driven to a local urgent care; a Port Orchard officer following the erratically driven vehicle found her critically injured and EMS took her to Tacoma General Hospital, where she died that evening.

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office classified the death as a homicide. Investigators from the Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team focused on her 22-year-old boyfriend, Joseph Anthony Armas. Armas was arrested on November 6 in Nisqually, Thurston County, and booked into the Kitsap County Jail on charges including first-degree manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm. He later told investigators he had accidentally shot McClelland while unloading a stolen rifle.

Did anyone in Port Orchard know Ashlee or her family and have information about the events leading up to that night?