TACOMA, Wash. — A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed in the Hilltop neighborhood in Tacoma on Saturday night.
Tacoma Police Department officers responded to South Ridgewood Avenue and South 15th Street about 8:20 p.m. for reports of a possible shooting.
The girl was taken to the hospital in a private car after she was shot, according to police. She died at the hospital.
Police are investigating the incident as a homicide.
Detectives said there is not a threat to the public.
There have been five homicides in Tacoma this year through March 24, according to the police department’s crime dashboard. That is the
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