Police ID Renton Murder Victim, Seek Information From Public

RENTON, WA - Renton police have identified the man who was shot and killed in a stairwell at an apartment complex off of Martin Luther King Jr. Way last week. Meanwhile, police are asking anyone with information about the victim or the killing to contact them.

A passerby found Kalin Carter Lubben, 21, in the stairwell at the Sunset View apartments last Monday night. Police responded to the complex at around 11 p.m. and found Lubben dead of a gunshot wound to the head. However, he was likely killed as early as 5:30 p.m. that evening. Lubben also went by the name Makaiel Blackwell, and at the time of his death was wearing his hair in dreadlocks with bleached ends, police said.

The complex where the killing took place is located at 2101 Southwest Sunset Boulevard, which is on the south side of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South near the Bryn Mawr-Skyway area of King County.

Lubben was the first of four men to be killed over a three-day stretch last week. On Tuesday near 5 p.m., Arturo Marcial-Alvarez, 19, was shot and killed in Federal Way as he got off a King County Metro bus. Near midnight Tuesday, Latrel Williams, 35, was shot and killed along Rainier Avenue South in Seattle. Just a few minutes after Williams' death, Erasmo Plata, 21, was killed as he stood outside a convenience store along Ambaum Boulevard in Burien.

Late last Wednesday, two men opened fire on a woman while she was sitting in her car in a residential section of the South Park neighborhood in Seattle. She was injured in the shooting, but survived.

Police are asking anyone from the public who has information about Lubben's death to contact Renton police Det. Pete Montemayor at 425-430-7528.

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