2 dead, 1 injured in Puyallup shooting. Police say neighbor killed suspect
Two people are dead and one is injured after a shooting that stemmed from a domestic violence incident in a Puyallup neighborhood Thursday morning, police said.
In a press release, the Puyallup Police Department said the incident happened at about 9:10 a.m.
“A family dispute had begun in a neighborhood home, which spilled out into the roadway, where three family members ended up in a neighbor’s driveway and garage,” the release said. “One adult male family member was armed with a handgun and shot two adult female family members.”
A neighbor across the street was inside his home, the release said, then heard the noise and went outside, where he fatally shot the man who had just shot the two family members.
“Central Pierce Fire and Rescue arrived and administered aid, eventually transporting one victim to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries,” the release said. “The other female victim and the suspect were deceased on scene. “
The neighbor is cooperating with the investigation, Puyallup Police Department spokesperson Captain Kevin Gill said in a press conference at about 11 a.m.
There are two separate shooting scenes across the street from one another near the intersection of 31st Street Northwest and 13th Avenue Court Northwest.
31st Street is closed for two blocks. 13th Avenue is closed at the intersection.
“The area, to include the intersection of 13th Ave Ct NW and 31st St NW will be closed to traffic for several hours while detectives process the crime scene,” the release said.
There is no outstanding threat to the community, according to PPD’s post on X.
‘People were in need, so I went in’
A nurse who lives in the neighborhood told The News Tribune that she tried to help the victims after the shooting.
Michelle Weingarden-Bandes said she first felt something was off when her dogs started barking.
“I heard a lot of yelling and screaming and I thought it was a bunch of kids in the neighborhood,” she said. “So I went and put my slippers back on and my (next door) neighbor was walking down the street, she was like, ‘Did you hear that? It was gunshots.’”
Weingarden-Bandes said what she saw next made her spring into action: an open garage door, and two bodies on the ground, with a third person leaning over one of them. She said she ran over and asked what happened and a man nearby — who she said she later learned was the neighbor who shot the suspect — kept saying: “I have my gun, my gun is still on me, my gun is still on me.”
She tried to help before medics took the injured woman away, she said.
“People were in need, so I went in and started holding pressure, asking questions, did CPR when I needed to, CPR instinct takes over,” Weingarden-Bandes said. “I’ve been doing this for so long, I was a medic in the Air Force. I work pediatrics, but I know how to take care of adults.”
Weingarden-Bandes told The News Tribune that she has lived in the neighborhood for eight years, and that she did not know the neighbors, just their faces from waving at them while they walked their dogs.
“We are all in shock that this happened in our neighborhood,” Weingarden-Bandes said. “I’m like, ‘OK, I’ve gotta go to work,’ and then I’m like, ‘Yeah, no, I’m not going to work.’ I can’t go to work, it’s a lot, reliving it. I keep seeing flashbacks of things that happened when I was in the garage helping the victims.”
Weingarden-Bandes said she didn’t hear the gunshots when they happened because her dogs were barking loudly.
Another neighbor, Carmen Holliday, said she was upstairs in her house when she first heard the gunshots. Then, she looked down and saw the open garage door and the bodies on the ground, she told The News Tribune.
“I didn’t recognize it as gunshots at first, but when I went to the window I immediately knew that those were gunshots that I heard,” Holliday said. “I said ‘not in this neighborhood, that’s not possible’ but then I looked right there because I was upstairs. So, I was able to look right down, and I saw two cop cars pull up real fast.”
Holliday has lived in the neighborhood for six years and described it as “very, very, super quiet.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said.
Further information was not immediately available. Check back for updates.
This story was originally published April 2, 2026 at 10:25 AM.
