Crime

Man found shot to death outside Tacoma business, police say

A 48-year-old man was found dead outside a Tacoma business shortly after midnight Monday morning, police said.

Dispatchers from South Sound 911 received a report about 12:03 a.m. of a man shot outside a business in the 4300 block of East Portland Avenue in the city’s Eastside neighborhood, according to a news release from Tacoma Police Department.

Officers responded and found an unresponsive man in the parking lot. The man was declared dead at the scene. He has not yet been publicly identified.

Detectives and crime scene technicians responded to the scene to investigate the homicide.

Tacoma Police Department officers responded early Monday morning to a report of a man fatally shot outside a business in the 4300 block of East Portland Avenue.
Tacoma Police Department officers responded early Monday morning to a report of a man fatally shot outside a business in the 4300 block of East Portland Avenue. Tacoma Police Department

This story was originally published March 14, 2022 at 7:23 AM.

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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
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