Crime

Tacoma police investigating homicide after woman is shot, killed

A 25-year-old woman was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in a parking lot in Tacoma’s South End neighborhood, police said.

Tacoma police responded about 1:39 a.m. after South Sound 911 dispatchers received multiple reports of someone shot in the 8800 block of South Hosmer Street.

Officers located an unresponsive woman in a parking lot in that area. Life-saving measures were started and she was transported to a local hospital, where she later died, police said.

Detectives and crime scene technicians responded to the scene. The woman’s death is being investigated as a homicide.

A woman was shot and killed Tuesday morning in a parking lot in the 8800 block of South Hosmer Street, according to Tacoma Police Department.
A woman was shot and killed Tuesday morning in a parking lot in the 8800 block of South Hosmer Street, according to Tacoma Police Department. Tacoma Police Department

This story was originally published April 12, 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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