The Brief A man wanted in connection with a Tacoma shooting and a Kent armed robbery died by suicide during a SWAT standoff in Kent. Kent SWAT officers gather outside the home of a shooting suspect on Aug. 5, 2026. Kent SWAT officers enter the home of a shooting suspect after breaching the front door on Aug. 5, 2026. In the Tacoma Walmart shooting, officers were attempting to arrest someone for shoplifting when multiple people began shooting at officers from a vehicle. In the April 24 shooting in Kent, a 26-year-old Kent man was hospitalized and airlifted to Harborview with multiple gunshot wounds.