On the evening of July 18, 2018, 28-year-old Robert Doss II was shot and killed while parked in a Ford Explorer with a friend near South 14th and L Street in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. An SUV pulled alongside, someone asked where Doss was from, and after he answered Hilltop gunfire erupted from the backseat. Doss was struck in the chest and later pronounced dead at St. Joseph Medical Center; the woman with him was shot in the hand but drove them to the hospital.

Investigators say surveillance video and a tip about an earlier confrontation helped identify the SUV and its driver. Detectives arrested three men six days later in Graham: Jaden Gene Montgomery-Fisher, 20; Adrian Alvarez, 22; and Joshua Jazz Soria, 24. Authorities allege the men were gang members searching for rival members in retaliation for a May shooting; Montgomery-Fisher reportedly admitted to driving and named Alvarez as the shooter. No evidence was found tying Doss to gang activity.

Did anyone in Hilltop that night see the SUV or the three men before the shooting?