{"id":63277,"date":"2023-06-29T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-woman-shot-and-injured-inside-kent-west-hill-apartment\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:12:00","slug":"man-woman-shot-and-injured-inside-kent-west-hill-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-woman-shot-and-injured-inside-kent-west-hill-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, woman shot and injured inside Kent West Hill apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man and a woman were shot and injured early Thursday morning, June 29 in Kent at an apartment complex on the West Hill.<\/p>\n

Officers were dispatched at about 6:20 a.m. to the 2100 block of South 272nd Street<\/a> in response to a 911 call of a shooting at that location, according to a Kent Police statement. The initial 911 caller said that a man had been shot in the head inside an apartment. The complex is just east of Pacific Highway South near the city border with Federal Way.<\/p>\n

Officers and medical aid arrived within minutes and were directed to an apartment. Inside they located the original victim, an unresponsive 29-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his head, according to police. Officers searched the apartment and located a second victim, a 30-year-old Kent woman, who had a gunshot wound to her torso. Both victims were transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n

Their current status is not known, according to police.<\/p>\n

The reporting party said that he saw someone that might be a suspect leaving the area just after he heard what he thought were gunshots. Patrol officers set a perimeter around the area and requested a K-9 unit and air support. The person was not located, and it was later determined through witness interviews that there was evidence the person seen had left in a vehicle.<\/p>\n

Kent Violent Crimes detectives arrived at the scene to take over the investigation. At this point the evidence collected indicates this was not a random incident, according to police.<\/p>\n

If you have any information about this incident, call the Kent Police tip line 253-856-5808, email KPDTipLine@kentwa.gov or call 911 and request to speak to an officer. Refer to case No. 23-8443.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suspect at large after early Thursday morning, June 29 shooting that police say wasn’t random <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63277","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\/63277"}],"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=63277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63277"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}