South Sound News

Driver crashes in yard after being shot in Tacoma

TACOMA, Wash. — A man was shot while driving a car in Tacoma’s South End early Wednesday.

At 3:20 a.m., officers were called to reports of shots fired and a car that had crashed in a yard at South 76th Street and Tacoma Avenue.

Police found a 42-year-old man with gunshot wounds slumped over the wheel.

He was transported to a hospital with serious injuries.

Police have not released any information about an arrest or suspect.

The shooting happened in the same area where two fatal shootings occurred on Sunday.

In one of those shootings, two people in a car crashed into a parked car when they were shot. The passenger survived but the driver was killed.