The Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help for information in the shooting last Thursday evening that left a 12-year-old boy dead and a 27-year-old man with critical injuries at Harborview Medical Center.

The death of the boy, Alajawan S. Brown of Skyway, was ruled a homicide Friday by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Gunfire erupted at about 6 p.m. in a dispute involving several individuals in the parking lot of the Cedar Village Apartments, 6230 S. 129th St., just off Martin Luther King Way S., according to the Sheriff’s Office.

At least 20 rounds were fired.

Initially, detectives weren’t sure why Alajawan was in the area at the time.

However, they now believe he had gotten off a Metro bus in front of a 7-11 store minutes earlier on Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. and was walking up South 129th Street toward his home when he was hit.

After he was shot, he ran back to the 7-11 store, where he collapsed and died. A memorial to Alajawan is growing at the corner of South 129th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

Anyone with information on the death of Alajawan Brown, the related shooting at the Cedar Village Apartments, or the events that led up to the shootings is asked to call the King County Sheriff’s Office at 206-296-3311 (24 hours) or 911.