On the night of March 19, 2014, a brief confrontation between two groups of teenagers near 15th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Roxbury Street in White Center ended in gunfire. Ruben Castillo, 17, was riding in the back seat of a Honda after his group had fueled at a nearby Texaco. As the car passed a bus stop, shots were fired; one round tore through the Honda’s taillight, trunk and seatback and struck Castillo in the back. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center and died during surgery.

King County Sheriff’s detectives arrested 18-year-old Charles Moimoi of SeaTac within days; a pistol recovered from his backpack was later matched to the weapon believed to have killed Castillo. Prosecutors charged Moimoi with unlawful possession of a firearm, not murder, citing evidence that the fatal shot came while returning fire from the passing car. Two other teens in the Honda faced charges: Jose Bedolla-Mendoza, 17, with second-degree assault and unlawful gun possession, and Josue Grados Sanchez, 18, with drive-by shooting.

The case file presents a split-second escalation and competing accounts of who fired first, leaving a community grieving and legal questions about aggression and self-defense. Does anyone have information about that night or the people involved?