Police and federal officers arrest man linked to fatal Tacoma hospital shooting
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Tacoma police arrested a 25-year-old man Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder and first-degree assault connected to a fatal Aug. 6 shooting in a hospital emergency room.
Investigators tracked the man to Kittitas County, with assistance from Spokane police, the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, according to a news release sent Friday evening.
The shooting in the emergency room of Multicare Allenmore Hospital at 1901 S. Union Ave. killed one man, and injured a woman. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was treated for gunshot wounds and released the same night. Their names and ages have not been disclosed.
Police spokesperson Shelbie Boyd could not say Friday evening whether the suspect had arrived in Pierce County yet.
“That I don’t know,” she said. “I know our detectives are coming back.”
The case and the underlying circumstances are still under investigation. In an initial statement about the incident, Boyd described it as “targeted.” Friday, she explained that police wanted to clarify that the general public was not in imminent danger at the time of the incident.
“We wanted to make sure that everybody understood that this wasn’t a random active shooter who just came into the hospital,” she said. “It wasn’t necessarily targeted, but we believe that there was some altercation that happened off campus and the shooter followed them.”
The hospital was briefly locked down after the incident. Since then, it has returned to normal operations.
This story was originally published August 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM.
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