A 26-year-old Kent man fatally shot April 27 at a Kent apartment complex has been identified by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n
Jimmy R. Joe died from a gunshot wound of the chest, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office, which ruled Joe’s death a homicide.<\/p>\n
Officers responded at about 6:34 p.m. to a report of a shooting at an apartment complex in the 23200 block of 61st Avenue South, just northwest of Neely-O’Brien Elementary School, according to Kent Police. A 911 caller reported sounds of a gunshot and a person lying in the parking lot. Joe died at the scene.<\/p>\n
As of May 2, detectives have not made an arrest and no further details about the shooting have been released.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Kent Police tip line at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTipLine@kentwa.gov or call 911.<\/p>\n
Sixth homicide of 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the sixth homicide in Kent in 2023. Kent had 11 homicides in 2022, 14 in 2021, eight in 2020, four in 2019 and seven in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy R. Joe, 26, died from a gunshot wound of the chest, according to medical examiner <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":62572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62571","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\/62571"}],"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=62571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62571"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}