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A dispute over a missing Seattle Seahawks jersey and a music box in Moses Lake, Washington, ended in homicide for 38-year-old Juan Uel Gonzalez of Spokane. On the evening of September 4, 2015, Gonzalez and Margarito Leyva argued at the College Apartments; witnesses say a brief shoving match followed and Leyva produced a handgun and pointed it at Gonzalez. When Gonzalez challenged him, Leyva lowered the weapon and shot Gonzalez in the stomach. Gonzalez was taken to Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake and later transferred to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, where he died the next morning.

Leyva and a woman fled but were located by deputies and U.S. Marshals at a motel in Pasco a few days later. Charges were filed against Margarito Chiste Leyva; he later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison. Gonzalez was a father of five and, according to remarks at sentencing, had been trying to turn his life around for his children.

If anyone knew Gonzalez or witnessed the confrontation at the College Apartments on September 4, 2015, please share what you remember.