Tacoma police investigating second weekend homicide after man fatally shot in vehicle
A shooting Sunday evening in Tacoma left a 32-year-old man dead, according to police. A woman he was with suffered a gunshot wound that wasn’t life-threatening.
Tacoma Police Department is investigating the killing as a homicide. It was the second South Tacoma killing on Sunday.
No arrests have been made.
The 32-year-old victim has not been publicly identified. In a news release, police said dispatchers received reports that someone was shot in a vehicle at about 10:10 p.m. The car the victim was in struck an unoccupied vehicle parked near the 5200 block of South M Street, in the city’s South End neighborhood.
Police found the victim unresponsive in the driver’s seat. An 18-year-old passenger also had been shot, and officers began life-saving measures, police said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene by Tacoma Fire Department personnel. The woman he was with was transported to a hospital. Detectives and crime-scene technicians were called to the scene.
Early Sunday morning, police found a 51-year-old man unresponsive after dispatchers received reports of gunshots. Police said they and fire department personnel took measures to try to save his life, but he died at the scene.
This story was originally published October 10, 2022 at 7:39 AM.
