Pedro Montero was sentenced to 10 years and 4 months in prison. That really doesn't seem like enough time to spend in jail for taking a life.

A dispute over a borrowed vehicle ended in homicide for 22-year-old Alex Song of Lynnwood, Washington. On the evening of December 30, 2017, Song and friends went to Newberry Square Apartments on Ash Way to retrieve a 2006 Honda Pilot that had not been returned. As Song approached the vehicle and knocked on a window, a single shot was fired from inside the Pilot through the closed window, striking him in the upper chest. He collapsed and died at the scene; the Snohomish County Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide by gunshot wound.

The occupants of the vehicle fled; the Honda Pilot was found abandoned at an Everett gas station the next day. The woman who had been driving later cooperated with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office and identified 19-year-old Pedro Luis Montero as the shooter. Montero was located and arrested after investigators collected witness statements and other evidence, including that he had searched news reports about the shooting on his phone shortly afterward.

If anyone knew Alex, was at Newberry Square Apartments that night, or has information about the confrontation, please come forward.