A male was shot and injured early Wednesday morning, March 1 on the West Hill in Kent.<\/p>\n
Officers responded at about 7:06 a.m. to a 911 call about a shooting in the 3400 block of South 256th <\/a>Street<\/a>, which is just east of Interstate 5 and west of Military Road South, according to a Kent Police statement. The caller reported the person had been shot a few minutes prior.<\/p>\n Officers found a male with a life-threatening injury, according to police. Puget Sound Fire responded and provided medical aid. Detectives are working to identify the male and police have not released an age of the male.<\/p>\n A vehicle was seen leaving the area, but it is unknown if it is related to the shooting.<\/p>\n Police are looking for anyone with information about the shooting to call the Kent Police tip line at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTips@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police looking for public’s help for tips about March 1 incident <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":62012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62011","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\/62011"}],"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=62011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62011"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}