August Alfred Lastrappe IV, 24, a male Hispanic/Latino from Seattle, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of May 17, 2025, outside the OHM Nightclub in Pioneer Square on the 100 block of South Washington Street. Police and medics responded just after 1 a.m.; three people—Lastrappe, Keilani Renae Harris, 19, and Briaun Keith Dinish-Lomelli, 27—were pronounced dead at the scene, and a fourth victim was rushed to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.
The King County Medical Examiner later confirmed the victims' identities and ruled their deaths homicides caused by multiple gunshot wounds. Family members said Lastrappe had been attending a birthday celebration that night; he was also the father of a one-year-old son. Investigators appealed for community videos, including potential footage from a black Tesla seen in the area around 1:18 a.m., as detectives worked to reconstruct the minutes leading up to the gunfire.
Detectives and a Seattle Police SWAT team arrested three men in South Seattle on May 22, after serving a search warrant at an apartment building in the 3300 block of Gale Place South and recovering several firearms. Two suspects—identified in subsequent reporting as 25-year-old Hakeem J. Dowdy and 24-year-old Jamarquel J. Williams—were booked into the King County Jail for investigation of three counts of murder and one count of assault; prosecutors charged both men on May 28 with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault. A third man was initially arrested on an unrelated Department of Corrections warrant. In September, local reports indicated that charges against one of the three initially arrested individuals were later dropped, while the murder and assault cases against the two named defendants continued in King County Superior Court.
In the weeks that followed, the investigation broadened as families of the victims addressed the court during bail hearings and the community pressed for answers about motive and accountability. Authorities have not publicly detailed a motive, but court filings and televised coverage describe a confrontation outside the club that escalated into deadly violence. The case remains a touchstone in conversations about late-night safety in Pioneer Square, with detectives urging anyone who captured the incident or its aftermath on camera to share those clips to strengthen the evidentiary record.
