A White Center woman is pleading for the public’s help to find the person who shot and killed her boyfriend at a Seattle gas station.
On October 13, just after 8 p.m., Seattle police said a 53-year-old man was found shot dead inside his car, while waiting to fill up his gas tank at Shree’s gas station, located on Detroit Avenue Southwest, in Seattle’s Highland Park neighborhood.
The shooter fired shots into a crowded gas station with “disregard to any of the patrons,” police said.
The victim was later identified as Oton Garcia-Ruiz.
KIRO 7 News spoke with his girlfriend, Maria Cervantes, who said she was with him that night.
“I still can’t comprehend it. It’s very hard for us to have had such a beautiful day earlier and for it to end in such a tragedy,” she said through a translator.
Cervantes said she and Ruiz spent the entire day walking on a beach and watching the sunset on Vashon Island.
The two were driving home when they stopped at the gas station to grab a drink, Cervantes said.