Nathan Vass has been a metro driver for 18 years. He's also a writer and filmmaker. He counted Shawn Yim among his friends. He told KUOW’s Rob Wood about Yim’s life and loss, and the role bus drivers play in our city.

Initial inconsistencies in Sitzlack’s story led prosecutors to ask for probable cause for domestic violence murder at a court hearing in 2023. Police carried out “numerous search warrants” over months, but there was not enough evidence to disprove Sitzlack’s self-defense argument, McNerthney said. He was never charged in that case.