On the morning of December 3, 2017, 25-year-old Terez Bardwell of Burien was shot multiple times in the parking lot of the Red Lion Inn and Suites in the 25100 block of 74th Avenue South in Kent. Patrol units responded to gunfire just before 1:50 a.m. and found Bardwell unresponsive; CPR was attempted but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The King County Medical Examiner later ruled the cause of death multiple gunshot wounds.

Kent Police investigators treated the shooting as a targeted act rather than a random attack and said a possible motive might be connected to Bardwell’s association with criminal activity, though detectives were still working to determine the extent of that link. His mother, Tiwania Bardwell, arrived at the scene and later said her son was robbed while he lay dying. No suspect description has been released and the case remains unsolved.

Does anyone have information about Bardwell’s movements that night or saw anything in the Red Lion Inn parking lot?