Police & Fire

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the deaths of Oliverio Huitron-Rosalez and Alejandro Huitron Campos as homicides.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help Uwe, Gunda and Mark Meissner cope until they can rebuild on the Artondale site.

Pierce County prosecutors on Tuesday charged Lars Eugene Nelson, 29, with fatally shooting his girlfriend at a home on Fox Island on Sunday, April 20. Prosecutors charged Nelson with second degree murder in Pierce County Superior Court. Charging documents indicate the 27-year-old woman, who is identified only by initials, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Alejandro Huitron Campos, 31, of Gig Harbor as one of two people found dead following the fire on April 8.

Deputies found a 27-year-old woman dead at a home on Fox Drive. They arrested a 29-year-old man, who called in the death as a suicide.

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Oliverio Huitron-Rosalez as one of the two people found dead following an April 8 fire on 14th Avenue NW near Gig Harbor. Huitron-Rosalez was 64 years old. The Medical Examiner’s office listed cause and manner of death as “pending.” It is not clear from the Medical Examiner’s brief

Investigators specifically want footage from between 7:15 and 8:15 p.m. on the night of Tuesday, April 8, on 14th Avenue NW and 160th Street SE.

At least one of the victims did not die as a result of the fire or by natural causes, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman said.