On the evening of October 13, 2024, a day that began with a peaceful walk on a beach and watching the sunset on Vashon Island, ended in tragedy for 53-year-old Oton Garcia Ruiz, a Hispanic man. He and his girlfriend, Maria Cervantes, were on their way home and made a stop at Shree's Truck Stop gas station in Seattle's Highland Park neighborhood to buy a drink. What should have been a brief, mundane stop shattered their lives in an instant. While Garcia Ruiz sat in his car waiting to get gas, an
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