The woman shot and killed last Wednesday night near 23rd and Jackson was in the wrong place at the wrong time, her family says.

The King County Medical examiner identified the victim as 41-year-old Eboni Walker and said the woman died that night of a gunshot wound to the head.

Walker’s family told KIRO that Walker worked for a homeless outreach program and was between shifts when the deadly shooting took place.

According to a fundraiser for her family, Walker was a single mother of four boys.

“She worked hard for those boys and they looked up to their mother. It’s so heartbreaking and devastating as they will now grow up without her,” the fundraiser message reads.

The deadly shooting came on a day of gun violence in the area including a shootout that left a Garfield High student injured in the crossfire as she waited at a bus stop outside the school that afternoon.

Police have said they do not believe the shootings are related but have limited evidence from the slaying that took place on the backside of the busy AutoZone parking lot. Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz told the audience at Mayor Bruce Harrell’s public safety forum last week following the shooting that police did not have much to go on in the case.

Diaz said Thursday night the S Main killing happened just around the corner from a stepped up police presence at 23rd and Jackson following the Garfield shooting and only a block from the “Mobile Precinct” truck and camera system the department has parked in the lot since last fall’s driveby shooting that damaged a childcare center full of children and brought community calls for more to be done to address public safety issues in the area.

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