Kent Police arrested a 19-year-old SeaTac man for allegedly fatally shooting an 18-year-old Des Moines woman in the head on the West Hill.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a welfare check at about 7:42 p.m. Saturday and found the woman next to a trail in a wooded area near 24600 26th Place <\/a>S.<\/a>, just west of Pacific Highway South on Saturday night. She was unconscious and lifesaving efforts were attempted, but she died at the scene.<\/p>\n Karyme Barreto-Sabalza died of gunshot wound to the head, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n Late Tuesday night, Kent detectives received information that led to them a South Seattle house where the victim’s missing car was found parked in the driveway, according to a Kent Police media release on Wednesday. Detectives believed the SeaTac man was inside the house.<\/p>\n While personnel and resources were being staged, detectives applied for an arrest warrant, and the suspect left the residence fleeing in the victim’s vehicle. A felony stop was attempted; however, the suspect fled and a pursuit ensued leading into Des Moines. The suspect traveled westbound on Kent Des Moines Road and went north on Marine View Drive.<\/p>\n Officers were able to successfully spike the vehicle tires during this pursuit, causing the tires to go flat. Officers then initiated a successful PIT maneuver, disabling the vehicle and ending the pursuit. Kent Police with the assistance of Des Moines Police took the suspect into custody without incident.<\/p>\n “This arrest comes as a result of continuous hard work around-the-clock by our detectives,” said Kent Police Chief Rafael Padilla in a press release. “It is also a great example of how well law enforcement agencies work together with one common goal, to get the bad guy off our streets. I would like to thank Des Moines PD for their assistance. This is a terrible tragedy, and we are working hard to bring justice to the family of the victim.”<\/p>\n On Wednesday, police had not yet released the name of the suspect, as he has not officially been charged. Police also didn’t indicate a possible motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 18-year-old Des Moines woman found Saturday along wooded trail <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":35429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-35428","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\/35428"}],"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=35428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35428"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}