{"id":51803,"date":"2021-09-19T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-triple-shooting-leaves-one-dead-two-critically-injured\/"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T01:54:09","slug":"kent-triple-shooting-leaves-one-dead-two-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-triple-shooting-leaves-one-dead-two-critically-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent triple shooting leaves one dead, two critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

An early Sunday morning, Sept. 19 shooting in Kent left one man dead and two injured.<\/p>\n

Officers responded at about 1:18 a.m. to the 1700 block of West Meeker Street near a gas station <\/a>to reports of an altercation that resulted in gunshots being fired, according to Kent Police.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they found one man in his mid-30s and another man in his early 20s with gunshot wounds. Puget Sound Fire and paramedics stabilized the two men who were transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Officers learned while treating the two men that another man had fled in their vehicle with a third male shooting victim.<\/p>\n

Police found the vehicle, but didn’t disclose the location. A man in his 20s was found dead near the vehicle with gunshot wounds. A K-9 unit searched for the suspect but did not locate him.<\/p>\n

There is limited information about the suspect and his identity is unknown, according to police.<\/p>\n

There were several witnesses to the altercation and gunshots, according to police. The reason for the dispute has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n

Kent Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed this incident or may have any information to call 911, the Kent Police tipline at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTipline@kentwa.gov, and reference case number 21-11125.<\/p>\n

11th homicide in 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

The killing is the 11th homicide in the first nine months of 2021 in Kent. The city had nine homicides in 2020, four in 2019 and seven in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along West Meeker Street; police ask for help to find suspect in 11th homicide of 2021 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":51804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-51803","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\/51803"}],"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=51803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51803"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}