Tacoma city employee finds what looks like human skull while clearing mudslide debris
Tacoma police said a city employee found what appeared to be a human skull Friday morning while the employee was clearing debris from a mudslide.
A Tacoma Environmental Services employee was clearing debris just before 9:30 a.m. near the intersection of Center Street and Sawyer Street in Central Tacoma when the skull was found, police said. The area is near Tacoma’s Nalley Valley.
A Pierce County medical examiner responded to the scene, along with detectives and crime scene technicians, police said.
No more details were immediately available.
This story was originally published January 7, 2022 at 1:48 PM.
Peter Talbot
The News Tribune