Tacoma police have arrested one man in connection with a deadly shooting Friday night.

Prosecutors have charged Lloyd Robert Jackson, 28, with first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm in the death of Terrance Sand, 42. Jackson is expected to be arraigned this afternoon.

Tacoma police report the man was arrested in Auburn.

Sand was shot and killed about 8 p.m. outside a home in the 3400 block of South Madison Street. Tacoma police had been searching for two men in connection with the slaying.

Charging documents indicate that shortly before his death, Sand, known in that neighborhood as …

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UPDATE: A not guilty plea was entered on behalf of Robert Ray Locke this afternoon.

Superior Court Commissioner Patrick Oishi set bail at $500,000 at the request of Prosecuting Attorney Mark Lindquist, who handled Locke’s arraignment.

Lindquist called the threats “violent and disturbing.”

According to charging papers, Locke posted the threatening comments on the governor’s website. One said he wished one of her relatives would be raped and murdered. Another said she should “be burned at the stake like any heretic.”

Locke later told investigators he is mad at the Gregoire because in 1999, when she was attorney general, she …

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