TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma police are investigating a link between two shooting deaths that happened at after-hours parties held by the same motorcycle group.
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News partner the Tacoma News Tribune said Tacoma police are looking into a motorcycle club called the Global Grinders, the club that held unadvertised after-hours parties at a warehouse in Tacoma’s Nalley Valley last August and another at a warehouse at 23rd Street and South Fawcett Avenue on Sunday.
Police said that at Sunday’s party, a fight followed by gunfire broke out at the warehouse at 4:30 a.m., killing 40-year-old Bruce Price.
A similar fatal shooting happened at the party in August in which 17-year-old Billy Ray Shirley III was killed. That shooting remains unsolved as well, police said.
Police said they have little information on the club, and no one's been arrested yet in Sunday’s shooting.
“The majority of the people that were (at the warehouse) got into vehicles and fled prior to officers arriving. A few stuck around, and we do have some information,” said Mark Fulghum with the Tacoma Police Department.
Police said the club is not based in Tacoma but has held its parties in the city.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Tacoma-Pierce County Crime Stoppers at 253-591-5959. Callers can remain anonymous.
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