TACOMA — Police were questioning the boyfriend of a 21-year-old woman on Sunday, a day after she was found shot to death inside the front door of her home.
There was a history of domestic violence between Keenya Cook and her boyfriend, a 28-year-old Tacoma man and the father of Cook’s six-month-old girl, Tacoma police spokesman Jim Mattheis said.
"He had made threats toward her and her family," Mattheis said, declining to elaborate.
The man, whose name was not released, had not been named a suspect as of late Sunday afternoon.
Nothing was taken from the home and it was not ransacked. Cook died of a single gunshot wound. Her baby girl, who was upstairs at the time of the shooting, was not harmed.
Auburn
A bid to tap Lake Tapps: A group representing King County cities and water districts is asking the state for permission to tap Lake Tapps in a bid to boost the region’s water supply. According to the Cascade Water Alliance’s application, the lake could supply an estimated 65 million gallons of water daily, enough for a city the size of Tacoma. The Bellevue, Wash.-based alliance represents 10 cities and water districts around south King County and east of Lake Washington. The plan is part of an evolving effort to save Lake Tapps, which is actually a reservoir that gets its water from the White River. Selling water from the lake would provide the additional revenue Puget Sound Energy needs to continue operating its 85-year-old hydroelectric plant near the lake, alliance officials say. If the plant closes, the lake would drain away.
Vancouver, Wash.
Two children hit by SUV, killed: Two children riding their bicycles were killed when a sport-utility vehicle swerved and crashed into them on a busy residential road, police said.
Tyson D. Schram, 8, died at the scene Saturday afternoon. His sister, Jasmine A. Warren, 7, was critically injured and was taken to Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Ore., where she later died.
The children lived a few blocks from the scene in the Rosemere neighborhood of north Vancouver.
Tamara A. Cashdollar, 30, was driving south on P Street with her 5-year-old son when she swerved to the east side of the road and hit the children, said Deputy Chief Janet Thiessen. The SUV then crashed into a parked vehicle and stopped.
Police have not found anyone who saw the collision, Thiessen said. Cashdollar "is pretty distraught" and had trouble remembering what happened, she said.
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