Michael K. McLaughlin, a 37-year-old man from Tigard, Oregon, was shot dead outside a Lakeview Drive residence in Stevenson, Washington, on December 17, 2017. He had been part of a weekend trip to Bagby Hot Springs in the Mount Hood National Forest with four others before a verbal dispute between McLaughlin and 24-year-old William F. Prosser of Stevenson escalated. Deputies responding to a call about multiple gunshots and people screaming found McLaughlin deceased from gunshot wounds at about 8:35 a.m.

Prosser was identified at the scene as the suspected shooter and was arrested and booked into the Skamania County Jail on suspicion of murder. The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office was assigned to perform an autopsy. Court records from January 2019 note that a December 2017 phone call between Prosser and his attorney, while Prosser was in custody, had been recorded by the sheriff’s office; a judge later blocked prosecutors from releasing that recording on attorney-client privilege grounds.

If anyone was at the hot springs trip, at the Lakeview Drive residence that morning, or has information about the dispute, please share what is known with investigators.