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WHITE CENTER, Wash. – Deputies are investigating after one person was injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon in White Center.

What we know:

King County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to reports of shots fired in the area of Southwest Roxbury Street and 15th Avenue Southwest shortly before 4 p.m.

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SEATTLE – A young manwas sentenced to 23 years and four months behind bars for a deadly shooting on a King County Metro bus in White Center in October 2023.

The backstory:

Miguel Rivera Dominguez, who was 17 years old at the time, shot and killed 21-year-old Marcel Wagner. Court documents said around 15 other people were aboard the bus when the shooting occurred. 

Dominguez was with another teenager, and they boarded the bus, rode it for a time, before Dominguez pulled out a handgun and unloaded it into the victim, seemingly at random. Dominguez yelled at the bus driver to let him out, and he and the other teenager got off the bus and left.

Court documents also said Dominguez and Wagner did not know each other and had no prior interaction before the shooting.

The next month, Dominguez turned himself in at the King County Sheriff’s Office. 

Dominguez was initially charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to amended charges in July.

A judge sentenced Dominguez to 280 months of confinement and three years of community custody on Friday afternoon. He also ordered a no contact order between Dominguez and Wagner’s family, and for Dominguez to pay restitution, with the amount to be determined in the future.

Marcel Wagner’s family was present in court during Dominguez’s sentencing, displaying the victim’s photo, drawings, and his urn.

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WHITE CENTER, Wash. – A woman was injured in a shooting late Sunday night in White Center. Initial reports reveal she was an innocent bystander.

Timeline:

Gunfire erupted in the area of 10th Avenue SW just after 11 p.m. on Aug. 31. The King County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center then received multiple 911 calls reporting “shots heard.”

Deputies say they arrived at the scene to find a female victim suffering from a gunshot wound to an extremity. They applied a tourniquet and secured the area for medics, who transported her to a local hospital with what is believed to be a non-life-threatening injury.

Dig deeper:

While early calls suggested a drive-by shooting, a more thorough investigation appears to show that the gunfire likely originated from a neighborhood dispute. Deputies in White Center say a man fired a handgun at a loud vehicle after an argument with its occupants, who allegedly fired back before fleeing the scene. 

The woman, an uninvolved bystander, was struck during the exchange.

The suspected shooter was arrested without incident and booked into King County Jail for investigation of assault due to his reckless gunfire. The case remains open and under investigation.

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