Dorian Haddix was 26 when he was found dead from a gunshot wound in a roadway in Covington, King County, in the predawn hours of November 18, 2015. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene after a passing driver discovered his body. Haddix, a Black man from Seattle who attended schools in Seattle and Kent, had hoped to be a chef and wrote poetry under the name Choice the Poet. His mother is Dawnese Witherspoon and his father is Andre Haddix.

Investigators learned the last person to communicate with Haddix was a 19-year-old who said he and an 18-year-old had driven from Renton to Covington to meet Haddix for a business deal that never happened. Video footage later captured the two young men discussing the shooting and included details about the murder location that investigators say only the shooter would know. In early December 2015 a search warrant was executed at a Renton home and the 18-year-old was arrested and booked into the King County Jail; he denied knowing Haddix or having been to Covington.

Did anyone in the Covington or Renton area see Dorian the morning of November 18, 2015, or know why he went to that location?