TACOMA — A 40-year-old Pierce County woman was shot to death in front of her home Monday while her 5-year-old daughter was nearby.
Pierce County Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Jerry Bates says Tacoma police arrested a 19-year-old man. They believe he was upset over “a bad breakup” with the woman’s teen daughter.
Bates says the suspect also forced his way into the family’s home in the South Hill neighborhood and shot a dog inside.
The mother was driving home Monday morning when the suspect confronted her as she was leaving her car. She was shot multiple times.
The detective says the 5-year-old was in the backseat of the car at the time and wasn’t hurt, but she was “a witness to this murder.”
The woman’s husband and teen daughter were not home at the time.
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