Renton police arrest man, 27, in fatal 2020 parking lot shooting

After more than six years of searching, police on Thursday arrested a 27-year-old Kent man suspected of shooting and killing a man in March 2020 in a Renton parking lot.

Renton police found Oshea Larenze Williams about 9 p.m. on Thursday near Benson Drive and Southeast 172nd Street and arrested him after a brief foot chase, the Police Department said Friday morning in a statement. He was booked into King County Jail, where he is being held without bail, records show.

Williams' getaway driver, J'Von Kelly of Skyway, was sentenced in January 2021 to one year imprisonment after pleading guilty to felony rendering criminal assistance.

Thursday's arrest was a "testament to (investigators') persistence and dedication," Renton police Cmdr. Susan Lewis said in the statement.

Six years is a long time, but our investigators never gave up on this case or finding justice for Jimm Route's family," Lewis said.

Investigators issued a no-bail arrest warrant in April 2020 for Williams, who fled the scene of the shooting and evaded arrest until Thursday, police said. That month, King County prosecutors charged Williams, then 21, with first-degree murder in the killing of 21-year-old Jimm Andreas Route.

Several people called 911 on March 10, 2020, to report seeing a person fire multiple times into a parked white car in the lot of a Formula-1 Fast Lube on Rainier Avenue South, then run away. Officers pulled Route out of the car and paramedics tried to save him, but he died.

An autopsy showed Route was shot four times, records show.

Detectives reviewed security camera footage taken by nearby businesses, which showed Kelly's car repeatedly driving past the parking lot minutes before the shooting.

The footage allegedly showed Williams being dropped off across South Tobin Street, about one block north of the parking lot, right before the shooting. He is allegedly shown walking up to Route's car and firing multiple times through its rear passenger window, then running back to South Tobin Street to get picked up, according to court records.

Police arrested Kelly the next day during a traffic stop. A search of Kelly's phone showed he texted someone the day of the shooting about dropping "oshae" off. Hours later, "oshae" texted Kelly to ask, "Everything smooth?" Kelly responded, yea," court records show.

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This story was originally published May 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM.