Kent man murdered, family pleading for help finding killer

KENT, Wash. — The mother of a Kent man is asking for help solving her son's early morning murder in a quiet Skyway neighborhood.

He was found mortally wounded just after Sunday morning, and now investigators are trying to find his killer.

"I loved him to death," Veronica Rowe said. "And I need to know who killed my son."

Just a few hours earlier, her 45-year-old son was shot and killed on a dead end street.

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"Everybody know Big C," she said. She identified her son as Antoine Matthews, and said she does not know why he is dead.

"And my son wasn't a violent person," Rowe said. "He was a pleasant person and a good person."

King County Sheriff's deputies said they got a 911 call at 4:30 Sunday morning from a woman who lives in the 12800 block of 66th Avenue South saying she heard shots fired outside her house.

She went outside to investigate and she found Matthews, someone she knew, lying mortally wounded in her driveway.

Rowe says her son brought joy to many lives.

"He was funny," she said. "He would make you laugh all the time. He had always had jokes and stuff like that. He kept people laughing."

Now she is pleading for help solving his murder.

"I would like for everybody to look for who shot him," Rowe said. "Because we need to get down to the bottom of this. Too many of us, our black men are dying for nothing."

King County Fire District 20 medics said they performed CPR for 45 minutes, but they could not save Matthews.

Anyone with information about the murder is asked to call the King County Sheriff's Office.

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