On the evening of July 5, 2015, a dispute at Les Gove Park in Auburn, Washington, ended with the deaths of 31-year-old Chaz Schmitz and 29-year-old Sara Arthur. The argument involved Schmitz and Arthur and another man, identified as 39-year-old transient Charles C. Petrich. According to police, Petrich retrieved a .22 caliber rifle from his white Chevrolet S-10 and shot Schmitz in the chest and Arthur at the base of her skull. Schmitz died at the scene; Arthur was taken to Harborview Medical Center and died the next day.

Petrich fled but was found and arrested the following night at a 7-Eleven by an Auburn officer. He reportedly admitted to shooting Schmitz first and then Arthur. Prosecutors charged him with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, with bail set at $4 million. All three were described as homeless and in Auburn to work at fireworks stands, with ties to the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, area.

Did anyone in the Auburn or Coeur d’Alene area know Schmitz or have information about what led to the confrontation?