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RELATED | Seattle police arrest suspect in Belltown woman’s shooting death “She’s my firstborn, my heart, my life,” Rhodes said. “She was so full of life and had so much to look forward to.” According to court records, Simpson was with one other person the night she was killed, who was seen talking with the suspect and ran from the scene when the shooting started. But according to court records, he said he “did not remember this part of the evening” when shown video of the driver shooting the victim and “repeatedly said that he did not know that girl and would have no reason to shoot her.” RELATED | Seattle interim chief gives update after 3 deadly Labor Day weekend shootings in Belltown Records show Hall has three prior felony convictions, most of them dating back to the 1990s, and had just been sentenced in his latest case when he was arrested for Simpson’s murder. “The last time we saw this defendant was early August, when prosecutors asked for him to be held for three months, which was the high end of the sentencing range in that domestic violence assault case,” said Casey McNerthney, spokesperson for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.