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The family of a University Place man is asking for your help finding the man who killed a 27 year old husband and father.

Tukwila police say Carlos Wayne Ellison who goes by the nickname "Loot" shot his best friend, 27 year old Rogers Jovan Ward. It happened in around 2:30 am at a Tukwila apartment in the 5700 block of South 152nd St.

Carlos Wayne "Loot" Ellison

U.S. Marshal Tom Lanier says a witness told detectives Ellison's own 15 month old child was in the room at the time.
Lanier says, "The witness to the shooting said that Ellison and his friend started arguing over a debt. He picked up the child to make sure he wasn't in the middle of the fight. At which point he turned and heard a loud bang and saw Ellison shoot his friend."

Lanier says they believe Ellison is still in the area. He has family in Burien and Northbend and friends in Renton Highlands.

Ward's sister-in-law Sade Harris is angry Ellison hasn't turned himself in. She says, "You took sombody's life..not only did you take somebody away that was special to us but you took somebody's life and I feel like you should pay for that, you do the crime, you do the time.

At 10 am on Sunday, August 17th, friends and family of a 36-year-old Kelly Sarsten are meeting in the parking lot of the Razzle Bar and Grill in Lake Stevens on 4th St. N.E. to hand out Crimestopper's posters and put them up all around Snohomish county.

Sarsten was brutally killed four years ago and her body was found in the Pilchuck river behind her home on North Machias Road near Lake Stevens. Her family has kept their grief private since her death but faced with frustration over a lack of progress in the case, they're now asking for the public's help in finding her killer.

Sarsten's sister, Sandy Friedrichs, says it was no random murder. Friedrichs says, "the evidence tells me her cigarette still burning in the ash tray, with no violence in the house or on the back porch..things tipped over, everything nice and quiet as it was, that she probably knew who it was."

Another sister, Judy Stephenson says their hoping to get tips from the public after the Crimestopper's posters go up but it's emotionally difficult. Stephenson says, "I'm angry that Crimestopper's had to print these, I'm angry that we have to go put them up in stores so that the public can remember that someone was killed and hope that somebody will come forward with any piece of information. I'm angry that you have to interview me because it's not how it should be."

The Snohomish County Sheriff's department says the investigation is still active. Sarsten's murder is even featured in the state's first deck of cold case playing cards handed out to inmates in hopes of soliciting tips.

Sarsten is on the ace of diamonds, which her sister Kathy Anderberg says suits her. Anderberg says, "She's very sparkly, she loved diamonds and had a kind of ace personality so when I heard that's her card, it fit so perfectly." A vibrant woman that they're convinced was killed by someone she knew, a murder someone has information about but is too scared to share it.

Friedrichs says, "they may be afraid but if they give up some of this info, they may save somebody else's life because this happened to Kelly but it can happen to anybody else just as easily"

If you have any information on Kelly Sarsten's killer, Call Crimestoppers of Puget Sound at 1-800-222-TIPS. You will remain anonymous and you could get up to a thousand dollars reward.