On the evening of January 22, 2016, 47-year-old Anna M. Hargett was shot and killed outside her residence near the 1100 block of Roosevelt Avenue in Yakima, Washington. The shooting came after a dispute that reportedly involved a drug-related debt; a single bullet struck Anna in the lower neck and also critically wounded another woman who was nearby. Police determined the shooting was not random and treated it as a homicide, the city’s third that year.

Investigators identified 37-year-old Ricardo Ochoa Dimas as a primary suspect. Anna’s niece, who witnessed the incident, said a group including Dimas had come to the home demanding money linked to an earlier drug transaction. The niece told police Anna had threatened the group with an ax and discarded it just before the fatal shot. Dimas disappeared after the shooting and was found nearly three weeks later in disguise; he resisted arrest and was tased twice before being taken into custody. During the ensuing trial, prosecution and defense presented sharply different accounts, including surveillance footage and a self-defense claim centered on the ax.

Are there witnesses, neighbors, or anyone who knew Anna or her family who can share what happened that night or add context to the relationships involved?