{"id":61717,"date":"2023-02-01T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-woman-killed-in-double-homicide-at-kent-valley-motel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:19:52","slug":"man-woman-killed-in-double-homicide-at-kent-valley-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-woman-killed-in-double-homicide-at-kent-valley-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, woman killed in double homicide at Kent Valley Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-old Kent man and a 32-year-old Alaska woman were fatally shot late Tuesday night, Jan. 31 in what police called a double homicide <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/LxxXLUM3cANKfKNt8\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">at the Kent Valley Motel, 743 Central Ave. N.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched about 10:23 p.m. to the motel after multiple 911 callers reported sounds of gunshots inside one of the rooms, according to a Feb. 1 Kent Police statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There has been a murder,&rdquo; one 911 caller told dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the man and woman with gunshot wounds inside one of the motel rooms and attempted to provide aid, but both had already died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect has not been identified. Early reports indicated that it was not a random incident, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Kent detectives are asking that anyone with information about the incident call 253-856-5808 or email KPDTips@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n<p>These are the first two homicides in Kent in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting late Tuesday night, Jan. 31 claims lives of Kent man, 43, Alaska woman, 32 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61717","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\/61717"}],"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=61717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61717"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}