Kent Police are still trying to determine who shot and killed a 52-year-old Kent man who died March 3 in a bar parking lot on the West Hill.<\/p>\n
Clifton Plunkett died from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to a March 10 report from the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a CPR in progress call at about 7:34 p.m. at JJ’s Bar and Grill, 23826 Pacific Hwy. <\/a>S<\/a>., according to an email on March 6 from police spokeswoman Melanie Robinson.<\/p>\n “It is very early in this investigation and investigators are still trying to determine motive, so there are a lot of unknowns,” Robinson said. “This is being investigated as a homicide.”<\/p>\n The shooting suspect or suspects have not been caught.<\/p>\n “I have nothing additional I can release at this time,” Robinson said.<\/p>\n This was the third shooting in Kent in a two-day period. Police have not made arrests in any of the cases.<\/p>\n Police are still looking for who shot and injured a 39-year-old Sikh man on March 3 on the East Hill during a possible hate crime. Police also are looking for who shot and injured a 20-year-old Tukwila man late in the afternoon on March 2 during a drive-by shooting near South 228th Street and the West Valley Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kent Police are still trying to determine who shot and killed a 52-year-old Kent man who died March 3 in a bar parking lot on the West Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":27128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27127"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}