On the night of March 19, 2014, near the corner of 15th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Roxbury Street in White Center, a brief encounter between two groups of teenagers escalated into gunfire. Ruben Castillo, 17, a Hispanic/Latino male, was riding in the back seat of a Honda with friends who had just fueled up at the nearby Texaco station and were heading toward Alki. As the car rolled past a bus stop, shots rang out. Charging papers later described two conflicting strands of the same moment: wi
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