PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Washington Self-Defense: Tacoma hotel employee shoots man who threatened 3 employees with a knife :: 05/04/2022
TACOMA — A hotel employee shot a man who was threatening three employees with a weapon Tuesday night in Pierce County.
Police say a 45-year-old man, who brandished a knife, threatened workers at the Quality Inn and Suites Tacoma in the 8800 block of South Hosmer Street around 11:45 p.m.
A 32-year-old female employee shot the man, who was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He was shot in the left abdomen, according to the police scanner. The woman called 911 claiming she shot someone outside and the victim was still moving on the ground.
The man was booked for three counts of assault upon being released from the hospital.
