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Girlfriend of victim killed, left on sidewalk in Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood speaks out

SPD needs your help in solving a homicide that happened last month. Newly released video shows the moments before a man was killed and left on the sidewalk.

SEATTLE — It's been almost one month since 54-year-old Derrick Owens was killed outside of his parked car in Columbia City on South Hanford Street.

"I couldn't believe it. I have nightmares, I get depressed, sometimes I can't sleep. It's not fair. It's not fair. He was a good man," said Mary, who was Owens' girlfriend and with him beforehand.

"He was alive and then minutes later he was gone," said Mary. She said Owens was murdered on the side of the road, "he was lying right there on this spot right here."

Mary has asked that we don't use her last name or show her face out of fear of retribution. No one has been arrested in Owen's murder. 

"I want justice for him, I want the people to get caught and pay for what they did to him," she said.

Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound released this new surveillance video taken on Sept. 22 looking to identify two people captured walking their dog. Owens is seen in the video getting into his car.

"It looks like the two people walk on, a male and a female, words were obviously exchanged and the male half of that team walks back and approaches the victim and that's where the video ends," said Jim Fuda, the director of Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound.

"These are obviously prime people that the homicide unit wants to speak to. We just need to figure out who they are," said Fuda.

Seattle police are not naming the two people as suspects. 

"Just subjects we're looking to identify and speak with in regards to the investigation. So unknown in terms of their involvement in the investigation," said Detective Judinna Gulpan. 

Standing in the last place she saw her boyfriend, Mary said she was haunted, "I don't want to park around this place so I go somewhere else to park. It's hard for me to walk by where he was."

Crime Stoppers is offering $1,000 for any tip that leads to an arrest. 

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