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Wilberth Lopez Acala, 22, was found dead on May 14, 2018, alongside 19-year-old Adrian Valencia in a white Dodge Charger parked on 63rd Street West near Kobayashi Park in University Place. Both men had been shot in the head; the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled their deaths homicides. A neighbor alerted police after seeing the men and thinking they were passed out. Bullet casings were recovered inside and outside the vehicle, and no calls about shots fired were received.

Investigators described the killings as appearing to be drug-related. Surveillance video released by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department shows two suspects running from the scene and walking on the nearby sidewalk at about 3:42 a.m. One of those two suspects was arrested in the weeks after the murders; the other remained at large. The Sheriff’s Department asked the public for help locating the remaining suspect.

Did anyone in the Tacoma or University Place area see or recognize the two people on the surveillance footage that morning?