Dean Lai-How was 34 when he was shot outside his Renton, Washington, apartment on the morning of May 18, 2004. He was alive when police arrived but died at the scene after bleeding to death from a single gunshot wound to the shoulder. He had called 911 and identified his ex-wife as the shooter.

The suspect was his 41-year-old former wife, Rebecca Lynn Lai-how (spelled Lai-how in some documents). She turned herself in later that day in nearby Tukwila and was arrested; days afterward she was formally charged with first-degree murder. Court records and the investigation describe an ongoing, volatile relationship: Dean had obtained a domestic-violence protection order in March 2004 that authorities could not serve because she could not be located, there were allegations she had tried to set fire to his apartment, and police say she had distributed flyers accusing him of pedophilia, a claim investigators did not find credible. A note found in Rebecca Lai-how’s car referenced the act and her expectation of detention. Neighbors described Dean as a quiet man who had lived in the apartment about ten months and often walked his dog.

Does anyone have additional information about Dean’s life in Renton or recalled seeing anything unusual that morning?