The man who was killed in a shooting in a South Tacoma alley where two other people were wounded by gunfire was identified Monday by the medical examiner.
Dustin Carter, 49 of Gig Harbor, died Sept. 21 of a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office. His death was ruled a homicide.
Tacoma police found Carter that afternoon after a 911 caller reported shots fired in an alley between South Warner Street and Puget Sound Avenue, a few blocks from South Tacoma Way. Carter was lying by a red van when officers arrived, according to court documents, near another man who was shot in the chest and critically injured. Carter was pronounced dead at the scene…