King County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating an apparent homicide after a suspect or suspects shot a man the deputies were trying to check on during the early morning of July 15.<\/p>\n
As of the early afternoon July 17, no suspects were in custody, and the case remains an active investigation, according to Sheriff’s Office public information officer Sgt. Eric White.<\/p>\n
No gunshots were fired by sheriff’s office deputies in the incident, White said.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred during a wellness check early in the morning July 15 at the intersection of South 320th Street and Military Road South, just east of the city limits of Federal Way, White said.<\/p>\n
KCSO patrol deputies were attempting to check on a person seen in the back side of the property of the 3900 block of South 320th <\/a>Street<\/a>; an ARCO gas station is located in that vicinity. At that time, around 2:42 a.m., two vehicles in the area “sped off” and fired two shots, White said. The person deputies were checking on was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead on scene.<\/p>\n The sheriff’s office followed the two vehicles, but the vehicles ultimately eluded patrol from the area of the shooting.<\/p>\n Detectives from the Major Crimes unit responded to the scene, White said. The Sheriff’s Office declined to release further information on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Incident in the early morning of July 15 as deputies went to check on the man. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":63518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63517"}],"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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63517"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}