SEATTLE (AP) — Officials say three bodies found March 10 at a suburban Kent-area nursery are those of three Pierce County men who disappeared in December on their way home from working at a Seattle floral business.
King County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said Friday all three are
homicide victims who died of gunshot wounds. He says no one has been arrested. Detectives from the sheriff’s office and Lakewood police are investigating.
The King County medical examiner’s office identified the bodies as those of 25-year-old Jesus Avila-Bejar, 26-year-old Yazmani Quezada-Ortiz and 29-year-old Cristian Rangel. Urquhart says the men lived in Lakewood and the Tacoma area.
All three left their homes on Dec. 12 to carpool to work in Seattle in Quezada-Ortiz’s pickup truck. They left work some time after 3 p.m. but never returned home.
The pickup was found abandoned two days later at a Kent apartment complex about three miles from the Rainier Nursery, where the bodies were found.
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