UPDATED at 10:07 a.m.

Thurston County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man suspected of killing another man in a deadly shooting early today.

The shooting occurred inside a mobile home on Mullen Road Southeast near Meridian Road Southeast after an argument between two men, KIRO TV reports.

The victim was shot in the chest and later died at Providence St. Peter Hospital.

Deputies had identified a suspect in the shooting. The 58-year-old man was arrested this morning in Lewis County.

Tacoma police say a man in his 20s was injured today in a drive-by shooting in the 1800 block of South L Street.

The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m.

The man was able to drive himself to the hospital, said police spokesman Mark Fulghum.

No one has been arrested.

Tacoma police have identified the two officers involved in a deadly shooting Friday evening as Shawn Malott and Matthew Verkoelen.

They have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in such cases.

Malott, 33, has been with the department 2½ years while Verkoelen, 27, has been a Tacoma police officer 3½ years.

The officers shot 42-year-old Robert O’Connell after he pulled a handgun and started shooting at them when they tried to talk to him at a gas station.

The officer responded to a report of a suspicious person at the gas station near Puyallup Avenue and East M …

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The brother of the man killed in a shootout with police in Port Orchard Sunday has told the Salt Lake Tribune that his brother Anthony Martinez is being wrongly characterized as a violent pedophile.

Instead, Barrett Martinez told the newspaper Thursday that his brother was attempting to save a teenage girl from a troubled home life.

It was not the first time his brother helped the girl escape a bad situation, he said.

Anthony Martinez died in the shootout in a Wal-Mart parking lot with Kitsap County Sheriff deputies after he first shot and wounded two other deputies. A teenage girl who appeared …

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