2-year-old child dies after being struck by vehicle in Tacoma parking lot

Police are investigating after a 2-year-old boy was struck and killed by a vehicle Thursday in the parking lot of a Tacoma apartment complex.

The incident occurred just before 4 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 56th Street. Tacoma Police Department Patrol officer Gary Wurges said a vehicle was driving through the parking lot when the boy ran between two cars and was hit by the vehicle.

The child was transported to the hospital with serious injuries and later died.

Wurges said the driver showed no signs of impairment from alcohol or drugs. No one has been arrested.

“This doesn’t seem to be anything other than a super unfortunate incident,” Wurges said.

This story was originally published November 26, 2021 at 10:27 AM.

Peter Talbot

The News Tribune

Peter Talbot is a criminal justice reporter for The News Tribune. He started with the newspaper in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at NPR in Washington, D.C. He also interned for the Oregonian and the Tampa Bay Times. Support my work with a digital subscription