Mass shooting in Lakewood may be tied to gang killings in Tacoma, charges say

The mass shooting at Lakewood’s Harry Todd Park in May that wounded seven people might have been connected to gang-related homicides in Tacoma, one of which led to a livestreamed desecration of a victim’s memorial site.

That’s according to charging documents filed in Pierce County Superior Court against Na’Quarius Tyshawn Seale. The 19-year-old Spanaway man was arrested this week and is accused of three counts of first-degree assault for allegedly shooting a 17-year-old man at the lakefront park after challenging him to a fight, prompting return gunfire that injured bystanders.

Among the people struck was a 38-year-old man left in critical condition due to being shot in the liver, a 38-year-old woman whose legs were shot, a 20-year-old man shot in the cheek and four teenagers variously struck in the shoulder, elbow, buttocks and knee…

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