SPANAWAY — A Pierce County sheriff’s deputy was shot in the hand as he responded to a domestic violence call involving a Spanaway woman who said she’d been tied up overnight.
Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer says his office got a 911 call Monday afternoon from a neighbor after a 71-year-old woman freed herself, climbed over a fence and asked for help. The spokesman described the woman as the girlfriend of a man at the house.
When two deputies arrived, they were greeted by a man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, who fired at them. Troyer says the injured deputy was treated by paramedics.
Troyer identified the armed man as Rick Lundgren. Lundgren was booked into the Pierce County jail Monday night for investigation of attempted murder, assault and failure to register as a sex offender.
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