Arturo Sosa, 28, was fatally shot during a roadside abduction on State Route 26 in the early morning hours of December 9, 2016, while traveling from Royal City toward Othello in a green Ford Explorer. An SUV flashed its high beams and forced Sosa to pull over; at least three men then exited that vehicle, ordered Sosa and his companion out, and ultimately forced both men into the back seat of Sosa’s Explorer. When the victims tried to disarm a man in the front passenger seat, the driver produced a second gun and gunfire followed. Sosa was struck multiple times and killed; his companion was also shot but survived.

Investigators say the attack grew out of a personal grievance. Authorities arrested Sosa’s ex-girlfriend, Eustolia Campuzano, who reportedly named a friend, Paula Rodriguez Cuevas, as having introduced her to the men accused of carrying out the ambush. Gustavo Tapia Rodriguez, Fernando Marcos Gutierrez, and Julio Albarran Varona were identified as the assailants. A fingerprint linked to Tapia Rodriguez was found on Sosa’s vehicle, and tire tracks were matched to a GMC Yukon believed to be his. Tapia Rodriguez and Gutierrez were charged with counts that include first-degree murder; Campuzano and Cuevas faced first-degree assault charges.

Did anyone in the Royal City or Othello area recognize a green Ford Explorer or a GMC Yukon in the early morning of December 9, 2016?