TACOMA HOTEL WORKER SHOOTS MAN WHO CHASED, THREATENED EMPLOYEES WITH KNIFE

TACOMA, Wash. — A woman working at a Tacoma hotel shot a man who was chasing her and two other employees with a knife early late Tuesday night.

The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) responded shortly before midnight to the Quality Inn in the 8000 block of S. Hosmer Street for reports of a 45-year-old man with a knife who had been asked to leave the property.

When officers arrived, they learned that the man with the knife had started chasing two women and a man that worked at the hotel. At some point, one of the females shot the knife-wielding man.

The suspect was taken to the hospital with a non-life threatening injury. When he is released, he will be booked into the Pierce County Jail for three counts of assault in the first degree.