Tacoma Officials Release Cause Of Death In Case Of Former Warsaw Couple
Tacoma Officials Release Cause Of Death In Case Of Former Warsaw Couple
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
Tacoma Officials Release Cause Of Death In Case Of Former Warsaw CoupleThe official causes of death for the former Warsaw couple found dead in a Tacoma, Wash., apartment on Saturday were determined to be a homicide and a suicide.
An investigator with the Pierce County Medical Examiner on Tuesday afternoon said the cause of death for Mary Hoffer, 41, was manual strangulation, a stab wound to the chest and blunt force trauma to the head. The death was ruled a homicide.
The cause of death for Thomas Tuggle, 37, was a gunshot wound to the head. It was ruled a suicide.
At 2:15 p.m. Saturday, Tacoma police responded to the 800 block of South Eighth Street to conduct a welfare check, according to Tacoma Police Department Public Information Officer Loretta Cool.
The caller was concerned about the well-being of a female friend who had not arrived for a meeting and had not called.
Police officers discovered two dead people in the residence, later identified as Tuggle and Hoffer.
Detectives were called to investigate, and members of the department’s forensics team responded to process the scene.
