On the night of November 1–2, 2017, 31-year-old Shon-Tiea Marie Ann Brister was shot and killed in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood near 5th Avenue and Battery Street. Police were called just after midnight and found three people with gunshot wounds; Brister and 39-year-old Raymond Myles Jr. were pronounced dead at the scene after suffering multiple gunshot wounds and a third person was injured and survived.

Investigators say the violence began earlier that evening when Brister allegedly was assaulted by two men and called Myles for a ride. The surviving victim later told police the shooting was payback for a theft allegedly committed by Brister’s boyfriend. Detectives recovered spent shell casings from two different calibers, consistent with multiple shooters.

Seattle police identified two suspects, Jeremy J. Simmons, 35, and Nyagah Baker-Williams, 27. Simmons was arrested near the Mexican border in December 2017 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and illegal firearm possession. In March 2018 prosecutors charged Baker-Williams with two counts of first-degree murder and a warrant was issued.

If anyone knew Shon-Tiea Brister or has information about the events that night, please come forward.