His Text Said ‘My Blood Is Boiling.’ Police Say He Rammed His Coworker’s Motorcycle Over a Hug.
- July 31, 2026 the evening Tyler Sorensen, 22, allegedly followed coworker Jonathon Langdon's motorcycle out of a Costco parking lot in Issaquah and rammed it at roughly 40 mph, police say — ABC News; Fox 13 Seattle, Aug. 11, 2026
- “My Blood Is Boiling” the text Sorensen sent friends after allegedly seeing Langdon hug a female coworker he believed was his girlfriend — she told police they had never dated — Oxygen; The Post Millennial, Aug. 2026
- $2,000,000 the bail a King County judge set after Sorensen was charged with second-degree murder and pleaded not guilty at arraignment — KOMO News, Aug. 10, 2026
- 20 Jonathon Langdon's age — he was thrown from his motorcycle into a metal signpost and pronounced dead at the scene — Fox News; KOMO News, Aug. 2026
- Aug. 27, 2026 Sorensen's next scheduled court date, a pre-trial conference in King County Superior Court — Oxygen, Aug. 11, 2026
Tyler Sorensen, 22, and Jonathon Langdon, 20, worked together at Costco’s corporate campus in Issaquah, Washington. On the evening of July 31, 2026, according to charging documents, Sorensen watched Langdon hug a female coworker in the parking lot — a woman Sorensen believed was his girlfriend. She was not. She later told police the two had never dated, that she had repeatedly told him she “needed space,” and that he was “crossing boundaries” by treating a friendship as something more.
What happened next is not in dispute the way the motive is. Sorensen texted friends about the hug — “Always told me he was just a friend. My blood is boiling,” he wrote — then, police say, followed Langdon’s motorcycle out of the lot. Investigators say he drove alongside and behind Langdon at roughly 40 miles per hour, swerved into his lane on the 800 block of Lake Drive, and struck the bike. Langdon was thrown into a metal signpost and pronounced dead at the scene.
Sorensen is charged with second-degree murder in King County Superior Court. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on August 6, 2026, and remains held on $2,000,000 bail. He is presumed innocent unless and until a jury says otherwise — but the account below, drawn from police statements and the charging documents, is the one prosecutors say the evidence supports: a fatal act of jealousy over a hug between two people who, by the woman’s own account, were never together at all.
Issaquah is where Costco is headquartered, and both men worked out of the company’s corporate campus there. Coverage of the case describes surveillance footage from the lot showing Sorensen’s car swerving near both Langdon and the coworker before he ever left the parking lot — meaning whatever he decided to do, he had started deciding it before either of them was on the road.
Sorensen’s belief that the woman was his girlfriend appears nowhere in her own account. She told investigators the two were never a couple, and that she had told him more than once that she needed space and that he was crossing boundaries — the language of someone describing an unwanted pursuit, not a breakup. Sorensen’s text to friends treated the hug as proof of a betrayal that, on her telling, required no betrayal at all, because there was no relationship to betray.
“Always told me he was just a friend. My blood is boiling.”
Tyler Sorensen · text to friends, cited in the charging documents · July 31, 2026
From the parking lot, Sorensen allegedly followed Langdon’s motorcycle onto the street. Police say he pulled his sedan alongside or behind the bike at roughly 40 miles per hour, then swerved into Langdon’s lane on the 800 block of Lake Drive, just before 9 p.m. The car struck the motorcycle’s side. Langdon was ejected, struck a metal signpost, and died at the scene — Issaquah police and fire responded to what a 911 call described as a single-vehicle motorcycle crash, which, according to the charging documents, it was not.
Sorensen did not stay. He left the crash scene and was, separately, pulled over by a Washington State Patrol trooper for speeding — a stop investigators say was unconnected to the crash at the moment it happened. About an hour after the collision, Sorensen returned to the scene with his father, who approached officers and identified his son as the driver.
What Sorensen told police once he was back at the scene, and later in a recorded interview, sits at the center of the murder charge. Read his rights, he gave investigators two different accounts of his own intent within the same conversation.
“It was stupid but I, I was, I meant to do it.”
Tyler Sorensen · to police, per the charging documents
Elsewhere in the same interview, he backed away from that admission: “I didn’t mean to hit him. It was like, I don’t know, spook him, I guess.” Prosecutors do not have to resolve that contradiction to bring a second-degree murder charge under Washington law, which reaches a killing committed with intent to cause serious harm or with extreme indifference to human life — not only a premeditated one. A no-contact order tied to the case now covers Langdon’s family, the female coworker, and the witnesses who came forward.
Sorensen was booked into King County Jail on second-degree murder and, at his arraignment on August 6, 2026, entered a plea of not guilty. Bail was set at $2,000,000; his next scheduled appearance is a pre-trial conference on August 27, 2026.
Issaquah Police Chief Steve Mylett is the only named official to comment publicly on the case, and he kept his remarks narrow — grief for the victim, and a warning aimed past this one defendant.
“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the victim as they process this tragic loss of life. Think about what you're doing before you do it. Because the decision that you make today can impact so many lives.”
Steve Mylett · Issaquah Police Chief
Costco itself has said nothing. Fox News and The Post Millennial both reported that the company could not be reached for comment on a case involving two of its own employees; no Costco statement has been published as of this writing.
Trade press aimed at HR departments picked up the case for a narrower reason than the crime blogs did. Writing in Human Resources Director America, Jeffrey R. Smith argued that a coworker treating a friendly hug as a provocation — after already being told, more than once, to back off — follows what he called “a recognizable trajectory,” one that workplace-violence training exists specifically to catch before it reaches a parking lot. “The intervention point is rarely the moment of crisis,” Smith wrote; “it’s the moment a boundary is first named and crossed.”
That is the accountability underneath the absurdity of this case, not a substitute for it. A twenty-year-old man is dead over a hug between two people who, on the record, were never a couple. Nothing about the motive makes the outcome any less real: Jonathon Langdon does not get to argue with the account Tyler Sorensen gave police, and Sorensen — presumed innocent, awaiting an August 27 pre-trial conference — is the only person left to answer for what the evidence says happened on Lake Drive.
Tyler Sorensen, 22, is charged with second-degree murder after allegedly ramming coworker Jonathon Langdon’s motorcycle with his car on July 31, 2026, in Issaquah, Washington — a killing prosecutors say was triggered by a hug Sorensen mistook for infidelity, between two people who, per the woman’s own account to police, were never a couple. Sorensen pleaded not guilty on August 6, 2026, and remains held on $2,000,000 bail ahead of an August 27 pre-trial conference. He is presumed innocent unless proven otherwise. What is not in dispute is the record he left behind: a text reading “my blood is boiling,” a chase, a crash, and two contradictory statements to police about whether he meant to kill the man he says he only wanted to scare.
