UPDATE: Tacoma police have released the name and photograph of a man believed to have been injured this morning in a confrontation with two officers on Pacific Avenue.

Right now, officers are concerned about getting Michael J. Wilson, 25, treatment, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

“We believe he may be injured and in need of medical attention,” he said. “Once his medical needs are tended to we will address the legal situation.”

Two officers fired at Wilson after one of the officers was hit and dragged by a white Cadillac that investigators suspect Wilson was driving. Investigators don’t know if …

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A Tacoma police officer shot and injured a suspected burglar early today after a confrontation outside a South Tacoma home where the suspect crashed a vehicle.

The 24-year-old burglar suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment, Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

The 31-year-old officer also was injured in the incident. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of either a cut or abrasion to his head, Fulghum said. The officer will be placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure after officer-involved shootings.

The officer and others responded to a burglary-in-progress …

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A Kent police officer shot and killed a man armed with a long gun this morning at the Kent Transit Center.

The man, a 58-year-old Kent resident, died at the scene, said Cathy Schrock, Federal Way police spokeswoman. The Federal Way Police Department is investigating the deadly shooting.

Meanwhile, two Kent officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure when officers fire their weapons. One officer is a three-year veteran of the department; the other is a six-year veteran. Their names have not been released.

The man had been in a Far West cab for some …

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The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that a Lakewood police officer’s bullet killed a man in February after a domestic violence incident.

The office had been investigating whether Daniell Johnson, 35, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound or from shots fired from officer Brian Markert’s gun. The review found Johnson died of a gunshot wound to the chest, the office reported Monday. He also had been shot in the head.

Johnson’s death has been ruled a homicide.

Johnson was killed Feb. 8 after his ex-wife called police to her home in the 20 block of Rips Lane Southwest. …

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UPDATE: Renton police report the man’s condition has been upgraded to serious and he is expected to survive.

ORIGINAL POST: A 63-year-old Kent man was shot and injured by Kent police Tuesday night after he reportedly pointed a gun at two officers.

The injured man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of his injuries. His condition was not known.

The two officers, 27 and 29, have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure when officers use deadly force.

The incident began just after 10 p.m. Tuesday. Kent officers were initially called to the …

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A King County inquest jury hearing testimony involving a deadly shooting by a Federal Way police officer has finished its deliberations.

The jury found that officer Matthew Leitgeb had reason to fear for his life Aug. 31 when he fired an initial series of bullets at 23-year-old David Young as Young sat behind the wheel of a stolen pickup truck. But they were split over whether the same level of threat existed when Leitgeb fired a second series of shots at Young, killing him, the Seattle Times reports.

Read the Times’ story on the inquest’s findings here.

The investigation was continuing today after a Puyallup police officer shot and wounded a man who had fled from officers at the South Hill Mall on Tuesday night.

The 22-year-old Puyallup man was shot twice but neither injury was considered life threatening, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. He was being treated at Tacoma General Hospital for his wounds.

Meanwhile, the 34-year-old officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure when an officer fires a weapon. The officer has been with the department for two years.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department was investigating the …

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Puyallup police shot a man tonight at the end of a pursuit that started at South Hill Mall.

Officers were called to the mall parking lot shortly after 9 p.m. to check out suspicious people who appeared to be making a drug deal, said Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer.

The suspects fled from the officers, prompting the pursuit. Details of the confrontation that  prompted the shooting at 128^th Street East and 62^nd Avenue East were not immediately available.

Police took the suspect, who is expected to survive his wounds, into custody. The involved officer was not injured.

The Sheriff’s …

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