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The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the two young men killed during a drive-by shooting Sept. 28 in Kent along South 272nd Street under the Interstate 5 overpass.
Ali Abdi Dahir, 20, and Abdiqadir Abdiqadir, 20, each died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Sept. 30 report by the medical examiner, which ruled the manner of death as homicide.
No arrests have been made.
“No other updates other than our victims are both identified as 20-year-old males,” according to a Sept. 30 email from Kent Police Assistant Chief Jared Kasner when asked for more details about the shootings. “One is from Des Moines and the other is from Kent.”
Kent Police on Sept. 28 described it as a targeted shooting. Kasner declined to address why they think the two men were targeted.
Officers responded at about 10:43 a.m. following multiple reports of a shooting, according to a Sept. 28 Kent Police Facebook post. Callers to 911 reported two people had been shot and that the suspect vehicle fled the area.
Officers located two men inside a vehicle and extracted them for medical aid, according to police. Puget Sound Fire and King County Medic One personnel were on scene and provided emergency medical treatment. Despite these efforts, both men were pronounced deceased at the scene.
Witnesses reported that they were stopped in traffic when they heard multiple gunshots on South 272nd Street near the I-5 overpass. Some witnesses reported seeing a dark-colored sedan pull alongside the victims’ vehicle and someone from the sedan fire multiple rounds into the vehicle before fleeing, according to police. The suspect vehicle was last seen traveling southbound on I-5.
Police have not released any other details about the dark-colored sedan. Detectives are working to confirm the description of the suspect(s), and the vehicle they used by processing evidence, including available video from the area, according to the initial police Facebook post.
Kent Police are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to call the Tip Line at 253-856-5808 or email [email protected]. If the tip is urgent, call 911.
