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April Reed, 18, and her boyfriend Justin Plunkett were shot dead on September 8, 2016, on a rural property about eight miles northwest of Goldendale, Washington, where the couple had recently moved and were staying in a tent. Responding deputies found two motor homes and a shed burning on Brentwood Road; Reed and Plunkett were later discovered shot multiple times and deceased amid smoke and chaos in the hills above town.

Investigators focused on a single suspect connected to the property, identified as Gary Richard Hawkins, Reed’s great-uncle. Authorities say Hawkins fired toward his sister’s trailer during the incident while she fired back blindly; neither she nor Hawkins were struck. Hawkins surrendered to the first deputy on scene but lost consciousness after being placed in a patrol car and was airlifted to a Portland hospital. Prosecutors filed murder charges in the days after the killings.

If anyone knew April, Justin, or details about the property on Brentwood Road that night, please share what you remember.