ATTEMPTED CHILD LURING
A man allegedly tried to lure a 3-year-old girl at Tower Lanes, located at 6323 6th Ave, on Oct. 13. The girl’s father told police he saw the suspect speaking to his daughter and asking her to go out to his car. The father intervened and the suspect walked to a nearby restaurant, where he was arrested.
ARREST AT FORUM
A Tacoma man was arrested for threatening people attending an education forum with U.S. Representative Norm Dicks on Oct. 13. The suspect was outside Whitman Elementary School, located at 1120 S. 39th St.
ARGUMENT TURNS VIOLENT
A man was arrested on Oct. 13 for allegedly shooting a woman. A group of people was drinking in an apartment near the intersection of South 90th and Hosmer streets when two women began fighting. The husband of one woman shot her opponent in the leg. He turned himself in at the jail about two hours later. He was booked on suspicion of first-degree assault.
CHASE ENDS IN CRASH
A man was arrested on Oct. 12 after leading Lakewood police on a short pursuit that ended in Tacoma. The suspect was spotted speeding in Lakewood. The driver sped off when the officer tried to pull him over. The pursuit ended at the intersection of South 80th Street and South Yakima Avenue when the suspect ran a stop sign and another vehicle hit his. The suspect was not injured. Two people in the other vehicle suffered minor injuries. The suspect was allegedly driving without a valid driver’s license.
WOMAN ABDUCTED
Detectives located a man and woman sought in a domestic dispute and abduction on Oct. 12. The woman’s family reported that her boyfriend had taken her from an East Side home. Officers spotted his truck in front of a home in the 1100 block of South 43rd St. The homeowner was contacted, who told them the pair were in the home. They asked the man to come out, which he did. The woman did not appear to be injured. Both were taken to police headquarters for questioning.
TEENS CHARGED IN MAN’S DEATH
Sokun Phorn was fatally shot on Oct. 11 while arguing with a man near the intersection of South 57th Street and South Park Avenue. Shadeed Booker Beaver, Dominique Jamaal Stewart and Needra Kieren Paige Herres, all 17, were arrested.
Phorn’s girlfriend told detectives he received a call from a man who wanted to pay off a debt and purchase marijuana, according to charging documents. They met and sat in Phorn’s car. The other man allegedly shot Phorn, grabbed his marijuana and left. A cell phone number he used to call Phorn was traced to Herres.
A getaway vehicle was traced to Stewart, the registered owner. It was found outside Herres’ home. When Stewart left in it, he was pulled over and arrested. Both admitted they were involved in an Oct. 7 robbery on the East Side of a person who tried to sell an iPhone on Craigslist. They identified Beaver as Phorn’s shooter. Beaver was arrested at a house on Oct. 14. He admitted to being the gunman in both incidents. The males were charged with first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. Herres was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree robbery. All were charged as adults.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
Tacoma police and Pierce County sheriff’s deputies searched the West End on Oct. 8, looking for a man suspected in a robbery in an apartment complex. The victim told officers a man with a box cutter tried to rob him in the parking lot of a complex on Westridge Avenue West. The victim fought off the robber, getting cut on the arm in the process. The suspect fled toward Day Island.
SUSPECT EXTRADITED
A suspect in a fatal shooting was arrested in Santa Clara, Calif. last month. Byron Alvarez was charged as an accomplice to second-degree murder in the death of Saul Lucas-Alfonso. Alvarez is one of five people charged in the shooting in a South Tacoma alley on March 25. He was extradited from California on Oct. 7. He was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. He is being held in Pierce County Jail in lieu of $2 million bail.
