On the night of February 20, 2024, 17-year-old Mohamed-Amin Farah was fatally shot while riding as a passenger in a vehicle on East Valley Highway in Kent, Washington, near the Renton border just south of South 180th Street. Witnesses described a volley of gunfire between his vehicle and another vehicle; the motive for the shooting is not known.

After the shooting, two unidentified males took Mohamed-Amin to Valley Medical Center in Renton and then left; he had sustained a critical gunshot wound to the head and later died. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide. Kent Police detectives have opened an active investigation; no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

Anyone with information about the shooting, the two men who brought Mohamed-Amin to the hospital, or events on East Valley Highway that night is asked to contact investigators.