Second victim of ‘suspicious’ Gig Harbor fire identified by medical examiner
The second victim in a fire that burned through a Gig Harbor home April 8 has been identified, according to a news release on April 22 from the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Alejandro Huitron Campos, 31 of Gig Harbor, died in a house fire near the 15600 block of 14th Avenue Northwest, the release said. A cause and manner of death are pending.
The release follows the identification of another victim, a 64-year-old man named Oliverio Huitron-Rosalez, The News Tribune previously reported.
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies and Gig Harbor Fire crews responded to the fire, which engulfed a newly rented home around 8 p.m. Detectives and forensics technicians began investigating the “suspicious nature of the fire and deaths,” The News Tribune reported based on a Sheriff’s Office post on Facebook. The post identified one of the victims as male but did not state the gender of the other victim.
Asked for any updates on the death investigation, sheriff’s office spokesperson Carly Cappetto said she had reached out on April 21 to a detective working on the case. He didn’t have any updates at this time.
The Sheriff’s Office has requested any video footage capturing traffic or suspicious activity along 14th Avenue Northwest/Southeast 160th Street via a QR code in an X post April 10.
This story was originally published April 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM.
