On the evening of August 20, 2020, 27-year-old Tadd Blodgett was shot and killed in a quiet neighborhood in Wapato, Washington. Local law enforcement opened an investigation into the shooting and worked to reconstruct the events that led to his death.

Investigators later identified a suspect, Elias Garcia-Lopez, who was taken into custody. At a court hearing on August 25, 2020, bail for Garcia-Lopez was set at $1 million and the Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office began preparing a case. The prosecutor’s office subsequently concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge Garcia-Lopez at that time, and he was released. The investigation into Blodgett’s death remained open.

Does anyone in the Wapato area have information that could help move this case forward?