One dead, two wounded in Auburn shooting
AUBURN, Wash. -- One person was killed and two others were wounded when violence erupted at an Auburn apartment complex Monday night, and three people have been arrested.
Officers were called to the Colonial Village Apartments just after 8:30 p.m. after getting a call about a fight and gunshots.
When they arrived, they found three victims, according Mike Hirman of the Auburn Police Department.
A 39-year-old man was shot and killed. Another man, 23, was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with gunshot wounds. That man's injuries are described as "serious."
A third victim, a 30-year-old woman, had knife wounds on her hands, Hirman said. She was also taken to Harborview for treatment.
The three people arrested have been taken to jail in King County for processing, and police say they have recovered what they believe were the murder and attack weapons.
Hirman says there may be additional suspects.
Officers were called to the Colonial Village Apartments just after 8:30 p.m. after getting a call about a fight and gunshots.
When they arrived, they found three victims, according Mike Hirman of the Auburn Police Department.
A 39-year-old man was shot and killed. Another man, 23, was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with gunshot wounds. That man's injuries are described as "serious."
A third victim, a 30-year-old woman, had knife wounds on her hands, Hirman said. She was also taken to Harborview for treatment.
The three people arrested have been taken to jail in King County for processing, and police say they have recovered what they believe were the murder and attack weapons.
Hirman says there may be additional suspects.
From what I hear Auburn can be a pretty sketchy place!
i live in those apartments... im movin out now!!!
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@deadcandance That is too bad, I raised my two daughters in Kent, it used to be a nice place. If we can't get our government to control who comes into this country pretty soon there will be no nice places to live.
Nothing more than an argument on how to cook the turkey.
Everyone knows that area as "Little Tijuana"....not for no reason either. When I worked up there I did my best to avoid that whole side of town like the plague. Couldn't pay me enough these days to live or work in Auburn, period.
@dg54321 Every city has its problematic areas... Live in Auburn and love it. Work 2 blocks from where this event occurred.Â
 @dg54321 Well, not that long ago, Auburn used to be a decent blue-collar sort of working-man's town.Â
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I can't imagine what's happened...
@TheTruncheon @dg54321 The same thing that happened to Kent. The apartments went Section 8. When that happens, it brings a new element to the area. Of course, not everyone on Section 8 is "bad", there are good, hardworking but low income folks on it too. The apartments I used to live at in Kent for a number of years were very nice when I moved in. I even paid the higher rent because I wanted a decent place to live with my family. As soon as it went section 8, the change was pretty obvious. All of a sudden, there are drug dealers, gang bangers, dramatic increase in thefts and assaults, etc. ... this happened over just a few months. Of course we moved, because I was not raising my family around that crap.
 @The WA Mama Thanks for that concise story from your own personal experience; which also helped answer the (strangely), now-deleted question I asked earlier today. It's good for information to be available to the public.
If this was gang related or drug related all I can say is too bad!! You chose the lifestyle so now you have to deal with the consequences.
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That explains the police sirens last night.
I have a friend who lives in the building next to where the shooting happened, who said they pretty much sent every cop on duty to the scene. I've heard before about the doors to the buildings being propped open and random homeless people being found sleeping on the stairs sometimes, too (the doors are all inside and it's SUPPOSED to be secure access). There's a bunch of problems in that area, lots of cheap housing which attracts not only the poor but also the ghetto-minded (which are two separate things; you can be one or the other or both).
Defensive wounds to the female. She knew her attacker and it's a fair bet it wasn't the shooter. Why cut someone when you have a gun. Just a guess, but I'm betting she was with the shooter. Police won't get any of them to talk though. Stupid gang mentallity.
Those hood rat infested, ghetto apartment complexes down in Auburn are like a ticking time bomb... guess one of em went off.
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 @TheTruncheon I'm not sure but all of the ones I used to drive past on, or just off, Auburn Way and A Street are a drug dealers paradise. This is how they are advertised on apartmenthomeliving.com "Discover the thrill, excitement and glee of living in Colonial Village Apartments."I wonder if this is the thrill that they are talking about.
@BigBrother206 @TheTruncheon Sign me up!