One of two nighttime shootings in Tacoma involves sheriff's deputies

Pierce County Sheriff's Department deputies were involved in a shooting shortly after midnight Wednesday during an incident at a mobile home park in Tacoma. Just before this incident, in the second of two shootings, Tacoma Police Department officers responded to a man who had been shot on EF Street

Shortly before midnight Tuesday, Pierce County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) deputies responded to a verbal call of domestic violence between family members at a home in the Martins Mobile Home Park at 4800 33rd Ave Ct E. The person who called informed that his brother was armed. with a knife, according to a Pierce County Sheriff's Department blotter post and a statement from Sgt. Darren Moss Jr.

A few minutes after midnight Wednesday, officers reached the suspect who ran toward a shed on the property. At 12:11 a.m., deputies exclaimed “shots fired” over the radio, the blotter reported.

Officers attempted to help the suspect after the shooting and local firefighters transported him to the hospital with serious injuries, PCSD reported. No deputies were injured during this incident.

The Pierce County Police Investigation Team (PCFIT), which bills itself as “a team of Pierce County detectives, forensic investigators, and public information officers from law enforcement agencies who investigate incidents of use of deadly force involving police officers,” will handle the investigation into the shooting. The deputies involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave, as department policy states.

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Less than 30 minutes before the officer-involved shooting, Tacoma Police Department (TPD) officers responded to reports of shots fired at 3200 E. F St, according to posts on X and Facebook. When police arrived on scene, they found a man unconscious.

From there, TPD officers “immediately began taking life-saving measures.” Tacoma firefighters arrived a short time later and pronounced the victim dead. TPD added that detectives are investigating the incident as a homicide and no arrests have been made yet.

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