23rd Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Carlos Arturo Luna
Kids have been going on joyrides since there were vehicles.
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TacomaStories is a website dedicated to the victims of homicides that occur in the city of Tacoma, Washington. We also profile local businesses, luminaries, and scoundrels.
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22nd Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Matthew Hurtado
Matthew Hurtado was two years old.
21st Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Amanuel Bekele
One of the many reasons I began writing about Tacoma homicides twenty years ago is because sometimes someone is murdered and the media and the authorities seem to largely ignore that it happened.
20th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Diana Pham
For three years, Diana Pham put up with mental, emotional, and physical abuse from her boyfriend.
19th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Dominic Mayhugh
Homeless encampments can be a place of community, but they can also be very dangerous.
18th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Leonard "Boogeyman" Strickland
On the afternoon of October 10th, 2025 forty-nine-year-old Leonard Strickland sat in his car outside an apartment complex in the 3700 block of South Orchard Street. One of the apartments was that of his ex-wife who was inside with his ex-roommate. It was around two in the afternoon. The ex-roommate confronted Leonard. The two men agreed to fight and moved their cars so they had room to fight.
17th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Dustin (Dusty) Camm Carter
Forty-nine-year-old Dustin (Dusty) Cam Carter’s life was rarely easy or uneventful and that began before he was even born.
16th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Herman (Fletch) Westinghouse Fletcher III
Sixty-one-year-old Herman Westinghouse Fletcher III went by Fletch. So that’s what we’ll call him. Fletch had tragedy early in his life. He grew up here in Washington State, but his mother died when he was just sixteen. He briefly lived with his father in California, but soon found himself in Alaska working in the fishing industry.
15th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Jaedyn Williams
On August 6, 2025, the last day of his life, 18-year-old Jaeden Williams went with his girlfriend to Allenmore Hospital in the 1900 block of South Union Street to get his elbow checked out.
14th Tacoma Homicide of 2025: Emily Tolley
On the morning of Monday, July 21st, 67-year-old Emily Tolley was in her home in the 3700 block of East Portland Avenue when around 8:00am a 27-year-old man with a baseball bat came to her door demanding to know where his five-year-old son was.