Ex-boyfriend fires gun at vehicle in Tumwater parking lot, police say

Tumwater police are looking for a 34-year-old man who fired his gun at a vehicle on Sunday.

About noon, police were dispatched to a parking lot in the 2400 block of 93rd Avenue Southwest after a report of a weapons violation, Lt. Jen Kolb said Tuesday.

After talking to a 34-year-old woman at the scene, they learned that she had agreed to meet her ex-boyfriend to exchange some personal property. When she approached her ex’s vehicle, he pulled out a gun and ordered her to get inside. She then ran back to her vehicle while the ex-boyfriend fired two shots at it.

The woman was not hurt and neither was a 31-year-old man driving the vehicle, but in their haste to get away from the ex-boyfriend, they backed into another vehicle in the parking lot and remained at the scene. The ex-boyfriend, along with a 27-year-old male passenger, drove away.

Police are still looking for the ex-boyfriend, although they have his name and other key details, Kolb said. They have not developed probable cause for charges against the 27-year-old male passenger, describing him as an “involved person.”