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Linda Green, 61, was shot and killed in her Bonney Lake, Washington, home on the night of November 3, 2016. Neighbors recall her fondness for purple; her yard and a purple sedan reflected that. Around 11:00 p.m., a Jeep Cherokee was stolen a block away. The vehicle’s owner, 41-year-old neighbor Tobin Panton, fired multiple shots at the fleeing car. One of those rounds passed through the neighborhood, pierced Linda Green’s bedroom window and struck her in the head while she lay in bed.

Her son, who was inside the house, heard odd breathing and found her with a head wound; medics later determined it was a gunshot and she died at the hospital. Investigators recovered the stolen Jeep about a mile away and found at least one bullet hole in its back window. Panton was arrested and initially charged with second-degree assault; after Green’s death the charges were amended and he was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter. He later pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and received an eight-and-a-half-year sentence. No arrest was reported in the vehicle theft that set the events in motion.

Did anyone in Bonney Lake see the Jeep or the person who took it that night, or have information about how the theft unfolded?