In the extensive comment discussion following our Monday followup on the deadly Saturday-night shooting by Morgan Junction Park, a friend of 35-year-old victim Michael Travis Hood said she wants to be sure he isn’t forgotten. (Travis is his middle name, but that’s how friends say they knew him.)
Jodie Davis (pictured with him, above) is the first person who told us he had died hours after the shooting, though authorities did not confirm that until Monday morning. We spoke with her by phone yesterday, and she provided the photos in this story. She also has spoken with our partners at the Seattle Times for this followup published last night, which notes, as friend and witness Jamie had told us on Sunday, that Travis had moved here just a few months ago in hopes it would be safer than Jacksonville, Florida, where his two brothers were killed in the ’90s (as detailed in this Florida story). Travis leaves behind a 12-year-old daughter named Destiny (pictured with him, at right). Jodie told us she is still trying to figure out how to get back there for Travis’s memorial service, once a date is set. Meantime, today is the deadline for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to make a decision about whether to charge the suspect, who was arrested at his Gatewood home shortly after the shooting. Homicide detectives asked publicly yesterday for any more witnesses to come forward; the documentation made public so far does not hint at any alleged motive for the shooting.
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