On June 3, 2018, 47-year-old Abel Yanez Contreras was shot and killed inside his home on South 22nd Avenue in Pasco, Washington. A neighbor dispute that witnesses said began with insults about each other’s mothers escalated inside Contreras’s bedroom; witnesses described Victor Alfonso Paniagua drawing a handgun, pointing it at Contreras’s head, then firing. Contreras was shot in the chest and head and was found deceased in the doorway by responding Pasco police. A handyman who tried to assist was threatened by the shooter and fled.

Police identified 27-year-old Victor Alfonso Paniagua as the primary suspect, located him at the Tahitian Inn, and took him into custody after a standoff involving the Tri-City Regional SWAT team. He was held on $3 million bail and charged in connection with the killing. The case record describes multiple witness statements and forensic evidence; the defense argued witnesses were protecting the actual shooter. Does anyone in Pasco remember the dispute or have information about the day that could help clarify what happened?