John Barrett, 51, was shot and killed in a downtown Yakima parking lot on November 6, 2016. He was found with a gunshot wound in the early hours of that Sunday; bystanders attempted aid but Barrett died at the scene. The slaying was recorded as the city’s eleventh homicide that year.

Yakima police arrested a 22-year-old man shortly after the shooting in the vicinity and booked him into Yakima County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder. Beyond that immediate arrest, details about the suspect’s identity, motive, and how the criminal case progressed are not readily available. Barrett’s obituary lists him as a Yakima resident; little else about his personal life or ethnicity appears in news accounts.

Did anyone in Yakima see or hear anything that night, or have information about Barrett’s movements before the shooting?