Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Three soldiers have been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a fellow soldier who was celebrating his pending departure from the Army -- an attack that police in Washington state now say doesn't appear to be racially motivated. Jeremiah Hill, 23; Cedarium Johnson, 21; and Ajoni Runnion-Bareford, 21, were arrested on charges of murder in the death Saturday of Army Spc. Tevin Geike, police said Monday. All four were assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, not far from the Lakewood sidewalk where police say Geike was accosted as he walked with two friends and fellow soldiers early Saturday. Police initially said they were investigating the death as a possible hate crime after witnesses said a black assailant directed a racial comment toward Geike, who was white, and his white friends shortly before the stabbings.It now appears the stabbing was not racially motivated, police sayThe suspects, like the victim, were soldiers assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChordFriends say they were on the way to celebrate Tevin Geike's pending dischargeWitnesses initially said Geike was attacked after an assailant yelled about soldiers being white 
 Question:By Sunday, friends of _ had placed flowers, a balloon and a sign on a sidewalk where the stabbing happened.

Tevin Geike