The one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Pacific man will be marked Monday with fundraising basketball games in the center where he was killed.

Shiloh Drott was shot through a window of the Pacific Community Center where he was among 25 young people reading Bibles, playing games and eating pizza on Nov. 14, 2008.

Drott loved playing and watching basketball at the center. The basketball games and raffle from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday will raise money to rebuild the community center’s east room, where Drott was shot. The center is located at 100 Third Ave. S.E. in the small city that straddles Pierce and King counties.

Sopheatheara Kim, 23, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Drott’s killing. Kim is accused of shooting a handgun eight or nine times through a window into the center. One bullet struck and killed Drott. Kim remains in custody at the Regional Justice Center in Kent, awaiting trial Jan. 11.

Two Pacific men, Chatri Lime Thip, 20, and Salomon Nora Phe, 20, have pleaded guilty to rendering criminal assistance in the first degree. Thip hid Kim’s handgun, and Phe transported Kim in his Jeep after the shooting, according to charging papers.

Thip and Phe are out of jail awaiting sentencing Dec. 4. They could receive sentences of from six to 12 months in jail.

For more information about the fundraiser, call Pacific’s City Hall at 253-929-1100.

Steve Maynard, The News Tribune