Richard Neil Johnson, 71, was killed on August 11, 2015, while working on a rental home in his Puyallup, Washington, neighborhood. Known as a retiree who owned several rental properties and as a one-man neighborhood watch, he had been married to his wife, Sally, for 50 years and was the father of two children and three grandchildren. On the day he died, a man fleeing police after an attempted traffic stop confronted Johnson, shot him twice and stole a bag from Johnson’s vehicle.

The attacker’s violence did not end there; he then fired at a woman and her two children, attempted to steal a truck and shot at residents who confronted him, forced his way into a garage, grabbed car keys at gunpoint and crashed a stolen vehicle through the garage door while shooting at pursuing officers and a pedestrian. The rampage ended when a Puyallup officer struck the suspect with a patrol car and arrested him after he was taken to a hospital.

The suspect, Nathen Ryan Terault, was charged with first-degree murder, robbery and multiple counts of assault and later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, first-degree robbery and five counts of second-degree assault, receiving a sentence of over 51 years. Does anyone in the Puyallup area have memories of Richard or information about that day that could add context to the community’s account?