The Brief
- Tau’rean Forks faces more than 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder with a firearm enhancement for the July 2023 unprovoked fatal shooting of 27-year-old Donald Harris outside an Auburn gas station.
- Investigators connected Forks to the shooting using fingerprint evidence from a recovered stolen vehicle and cellular data analysis, after which Forks confessed to firing the deadly shots.
- Prosecutors have recommended a total sentence of 280 months followed by 36 months of community custody, with final sentencing scheduled for Friday in King County Superior Court.
KING COUNTY, Wash. – A 20-year-old man who pleaded guilty to an unprovoked deadly shooting is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, November 6. The man, from Pierce County, was a teenager when he fatally shot an unarmed man sitting outside a King County gas station.
Tau’rean Forks faces a prison sentence of more than 23 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder with a firearm enhancement in connection with the July 15, 2023, killing of 27-year-old Donald Harris.
What led up to WA gas station murder
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According to court documents filed by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, the shooting occurred around 2:40 a.m. at a gas station at 3910 S. 320th St. in Auburn. Harris was sitting alone on a concrete curb outside the business when two stolen maroon Kia Optima vehicles pulled into the parking lot.…