A last-minute errand to buy shirts for his young daughters after a Kenny Chesney concert in Seattle is the last thing Benito Enriquez did before being beaten to death.
Surveillance footage obtained by Seattle police retraces Enriquez’s steps near the CenturyLink stadium that ended with a deadly encounter with a suspect in a white T-shirt, who has evaded capture and identification since last Saturday’s attack.
The 30-year-old Federal Way resident worked as a nurse for mentally ill patients, the Seattle Times reported.
“My heart is totally destroyed,” the victim’s mother, Christina Enriquez, told KING-TV at a celebration of her only son’s life on Thursday.
“He did not deserve this,” she said.
It’s not clear what led to the fight between Enriquez and the suspect, who was also wearing a backwards trucker hat, just after 9 p.m. on Saturday, but it left him with a severe head wound. He later died at the hospital.
Enriquez and the suspect were shown in a video walking beside each other and a woman. He was expected to meet friends shortly after picking up concert shirts for his 6- and 8-year-old daughters. Those friends arrived to a rendezvous point only to find a crime scene.
“He was a wonderful father to our children and he will be truly missed,” his wife, Bailey, told the Times in a brief statement by text message.
