Police: Gun-wielding man shot, killed by Tacoma officers outside burning home

  • Source: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
  • Published: 01/08/2018 07:27 AM

A man was fatally wounded by a Tacoma police officer who originally responded to block off streets for a reported garage fire in Tacoma late Sunday night. Oficers and the Tacoma Fire Department came to the 400 block of S. 59th St. just before 11 p.m. after neighbors called to report a garage on fire, according to Loretta Cool with the Tacoma Police Department. Police received calls that a man was crawling on the lawn with a gun outside of the front of the home, and other callers reported the man walking around as he appeared intoxicated. That man was walking toward the house that was on fire when police arrived on scene, Cool said.



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