Four people are suspected of shooting a man who was attempting to help one of them near Greenwater, Pierce County deputies said.
Pierce County sheriff's deputies were dispatched at 10:15 p.m. Monday to a shooting in the 59000 block of state Route 410. The 911 caller said he was being pursued by a group of people in a muscle car who had shot him, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department on Facebook.
The man said he contacted the people in the vehicle after he noticed that one of the women appeared to be sick. The man pulled over on the side of the roadway and asked if they were OK. The group started cursing at him and told him to leave, according to the post.
The man started to leave, but they allegedly chased him down, and he was shot, the post said. Deputies said he was hit in the shoulder and taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
When deputies went to the shooting scene, one of them saw a Dodge Charger or Challenger drive past. He radioed other deputies nearby to try to stop the vehicle as it drove towards the victim's location, the post said.
The vehicle drove off at a high rate of speed when the next two deputies tried to stop it. A pursuit began as the vehicle turned north when it got to Enumclaw, the post said. The vehicle lost control and flipped onto its roof in a ditch near 264th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 416th Street.
The passengers were two 19-year-old women and a 22-year-old man. The driver was identified as a 20-year-old woman, the post said.
The people crawled out of the vehicle but did not cooperate with deputies. The driver did not listen when told to get on the ground. When deputies tried to detain her, she allegedly resisted, the post said.
Another woman who was handcuffed was able to slip out of the cuffs several times until deputies replaced them with a smaller pair, the post said.
The post said that the male passenger was unresponsive and airlifted to a hospital. A woman who cooperated and the woman who slipped out of her handcuffs were taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Deputies reported the people appeared intoxicated and that they could smell an odor of intoxicants on them, the post said.
The case has been referred to the Washington State Patrol.
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