{"id":46468,"date":"2020-07-11T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/two-males-shot-injured-in-parking-lot-near-kent-hookah-bar\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:22:14","slug":"two-males-shot-injured-in-parking-lot-near-kent-hookah-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/two-males-shot-injured-in-parking-lot-near-kent-hookah-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men shot, injured in parking lot near Kent hookah bar | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were shot and injured late Friday night in the parking lot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/GJFZGhTANyLXFdMM7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Babylon Hookah House, 308 Washington Ave. <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/GJFZGhTANyLXFdMM7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a shooting at about 11 p.m. and found a 29-year-old SeaTac man with a gunshot wound to his upper body, according to a Monday email from Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner. Officers found a 25-year-old Kent man nearby with a gunshot wound. Paramedics transported both men to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The SeaTac man was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are trying to determine what led to the shooting. Police said they had not been to this business before, which is in a strip mall near Safeway. Detectives spokes to witnesses and are reviewing video surveillance from the area to gather suspect information.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Detectives continue to work through evidence and the witness statements,&rdquo; Kasner said. &ldquo;We are still working through the details to confirm the true sequence of events.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call the tip line at 253-856-5808.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent, SeaTac men hit by gunshots; police looking for suspect information <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":46469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-46468","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\/46468"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46468"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}