The two people fatally shot in a double homicide Jan. 31 at a Kent motel have been identified as Sean Peoples, 43, and Sharmayne Jackson, 32.<\/p>\n
Peoples and Jackson each died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office Feb. 3 media report. Kent Police reported that Peoples was from Kent and Jackson from Alaska.<\/p>\n
Officers found Peoples and Jackson dead after responding at about 10:23 p.m. Jan. 31 to the Kent Valley Motel, 743 Central Ave. N., according to Kent Police. Dispatch received multiple 911 calls reporting sounds of gunshots from inside one of the rooms.<\/p>\n
A suspect has not been identified. Early reports indicated that it was not a random incident, according to police.<\/p>\n
Kent detectives are asking that anyone with information about the incident call 253-856-5808 or email KPDTips@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n
Prior motel incident<\/strong><\/p>\n On Sept. 9, 2022, law enforcement agencies raided a room at the Kent Valley Motel and took a man into custody on federal drug trafficking charges after they executed a search warrant. Inside the motel room, investigators reportedly found one kilogram of suspected narcotics, over 15 pounds of suspected narcotics, hundreds of suspected narcotics pills and approximately $147,300 in U.S. currency, according to U.S. Department of Justice court documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police still looking for shooter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61763","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\/61763"}],"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=61763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61763"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}