Two men have been charged in connection with a violent robbery that led to the fatal shooting of a woman in the parking lot of the Tukwila Costco on Jan. 26, 2024, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Salman S. Haji, 19, and Ilyiss Mohamud Abdi, 20, are both charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted robbery, first-degree robbery, and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Haji also faces an additional charge of attempting to elude police and a second count of firearm possession.

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is requesting $5 million bail for each suspect, citing them as “a significant danger to the safety of the community.”

Prosecutors allege the pair robbed a woman of her Porsche SUV at gunpoint in Seattle before using her stolen credit cards at a Normandy Park QFC.

Later that morning, they were caught on surveillance video in Tukwila, where Haji allegedly attempted to rob another woman, Mingyong Huang, as she and her sister, Mingyuan Huang, loaded groceries into their vehicle in the Costco parking lot.

During the struggle over Mingyong Huang’s purse, Haji allegedly struck her repeatedly and then fired a single shot, fatally striking her sister in the chest. The King County Medical Examiner determined Mingyuan died of a gunshot wound that pierced her lung and grazed her aorta.

Abdi was arrested in May, but Haji fled the country on a flight from Sea-Tac Airport less than a week after the shooting and has not returned.

Prosecutors say both suspects were armed with handguns during the crime and that DNA and fingerprints linked them to the stolen Porsche, which was later abandoned in SeaTac.

Detectives also tied them to the scene using surveillance footage, cell phone location data, and social media records.

“This defendant used a fender-bender to trick the victim… then put a firearm to her neck and robbed her,” wrote Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jason Brookhyser in a bail request, calling Haji a “guaranteed flight risk” who had left the country to avoid prosecution.

Abdi, who has a previous felony burglary conviction, was also allegedly involved in a separate Kent-area shooting weeks later that left one person dead, according to court records.