On the morning of March 20, 2015, 27-year-old Brandon Williams of Puyallup was shot and killed in a parking lot on tribal land after leaving the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma with three female friends. Williams was attempting to back his car out when another vehicle blocked him. The driver, Jeremy Schlenker, had been seen driving erratically in the lot and firing a gun into the air. Williams got out to ask Schlenker to move and, friends say, to de-escalate and protect his companions. Schlenker pistol-whipped Williams and then shot him; he fled the scene and Williams’s friends were left to describe the violence they had witnessed and to call for help.

Surveillance video from the casino identified Schlenker and his car. Oregon State Police arrested him the same day on Interstate 5 near Salem; a female passenger was also detained and a weapon was found in the vehicle. Prosecutors later described a pattern of escalating violence and said Schlenker had been heavily intoxicated that night. Williams’s mother remembered him as a protector of everyone he knew.

Did anyone who knew Brandon or who was in the casino that night see or hear anything that could shed more light on what happened?