A Gig Harbor home-owner fatally shot an intruder Sunday night, right after the male appeared to break into the improper home, police reported.
The incident began soon following 10 p.m., when the unknown man drove to an handle around the corner of 80th Street Northwest and Rosedale Avenue, stated Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Darren Moss.
The guy drove up into the front yard of the dwelling, broke a window, entered the residence, then started “marching up their stairs.” Questioned whether he was armed, Moss reported the man “had a massive bottle of alcoholic beverages with him.”
“The home owner fired and hit the suspect, who handed absent correct there,” Moss mentioned. “We believe that the deceased’s relatives life just close to the corner somewhere, so he broke into the completely wrong dwelling.”
Moss reported that the male was “yelling and screaming at the people today inside the residence.” He explained the house owner was questioned in excess of the taking pictures, including that investigators in the early phases were being managing it as an act of self-defense.
Chase Hutchinson is the reporter for The Peninsula Gateway. He beforehand lined art and culture for The News Tribune as effectively as producing movie assessments. He acquired his start out in journalism at The Puget Sound Trail, the higher education paper of the College of Puget Sound from in which he graduated.