Lorenzo Parks, 38, was shot and killed during a random street encounter on the evening of May 18, 2016, in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington. Parks was confronted in the 12700 block of Pacific Avenue South and, after turning his pockets inside out to show he had nothing, crossed the street to walk away.

At that point, 17-year-old Dakota Mikalle Collins fatally shot Parks; another 17-year-old, James Purnell Mapp III, was said to have encouraged Collins to pull the trigger. Pierce County deputies found Parks deceased in front of an auto parts store from a single gunshot wound. All seven individuals involved were identified and arrested; the teenagers were charged as adults.

Anyone who remembers Lorenzo, saw the group that night, or has information about the encounter is asked to come forward.