PLPG: Poet Lyfe. Poet Gang

06/27/2023

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06/25/2023

💥 5:11AM - FATAL SHOOTING‼️🔫🔫🔫
27** N Parkridge
Disp: "Your calling party said him & his wife were fighting, now she's deceased. He said he may have shot her. He said the guns laying right next to him. He's not sure what happened."
5:15A - Officers are on scene
5:16A - One at gunpoint
5:18A - Residence is clear
EMS moving in
PD triaging one code blue(CPR in progress)
Already starting to lab out to the location
5:20A - 👮‍♂️ "Will you start a second EMS unit? The suspect's unresponsive also."

5:21A - Triaging one code black(fatality/no vital signs)
😔 RIP🙏

5:24A - Triaging the suspect code blue
6:02A - retriaging one code black
😔 RIP🙏

WPD's Media Briefing regarding this incident - bit.ly/3r3VOpd
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