Brandon Michael Mende was 16 when he was found fatally shot in the front yard of a Turnkey Road Northeast residence in Moses Lake, Washington, in the early morning hours of February 16, 2014. Authorities arrived around 3 a.m. and found a vehicle nearby with its lights on and the driver’s side door ajar; the vehicle did not belong to Mende. Less than a month earlier, on January 20, Brandon had been wounded in a drive-by shooting while riding his bicycle in the same Larson Housing area and was still recovering, wearing a cast on his arm.

Police determined both shootings were targeted rather than random. On February 20, 2014, 17-year-old Michael David Meier of Moses Lake was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Court documents say the motive appeared to be a personal feud over Meier’s girlfriend. Witnesses at a party reported Meier organized a confrontation, that shots were heard, and that Meier and others fled in his mother’s minivan. Witnesses say Meier told friends he had shot Mende and discarded a pistol and magazine from the vehicle; both items were later recovered. Meier pleaded not guilty to murder, witness tampering, and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Does anyone have information about Brandon’s movements that night or about the earlier January shooting?