Kent Police are investigating a shooting death on Kent’s West Hill early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Patrol units responded around 1:30 a.m. to a report of a man being shot in the area of 23829 30th Ave <\/a>S<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upon arrival, officers found a 25-year-old man shot and unresponsive. Officers initiated life-saving efforts until he could be transported by medics to Harborview Medical Center. The man later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n Police are not releasing the victim’s identity at this time.<\/p>\n Early investigation indicates that there was a dispute between the victim and the suspect, who has been identified as 20-year-old Kent resident Josue M. Rivera-Cruz.<\/p>\n Rivera-Cruz is still at large, and investigators said they believe he may have ties to the South Seattle area.<\/p>\n Preliminary reports indicate that this was not a random incident.<\/p>\n Rivera-Cruz should be considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n Kent Police are asking anyone with information on his whereabouts to call 911, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or the police tip line 253-856-5808.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Suspect still at large; public’s help sought <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":38048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38047","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\/38047"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}