Tacoma man dead, three others injured in separate shootings tied to South Hill party [Video]

A man is dead, three others injured after two separate overnight shootings in Puyallup’s South Hill.  Now detectives believe the shootings are related.

Those shootings happened about five minutes apart on 152nd Street East in South Hill.  The first shooting was at 12:36 this Sunday morning at 58th Avenue East.

The second shooting, at about 12:41 a.m., happened at 66th Avenue East.

Detectives believe everyone involved had been at the same party.

They don’t know what happened at that party.  But they do know it ended in two shootings, the second one ended here with a crash in this ditch, crime scene tape still visible.

“Like about five gunshots,” said Blake Mattson, neighbor. “Yeah, five gunshots. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Yeah.”

What Mattson and his neighbors heard was a shooting and crash on 152nd Street East at 66th Avenue East. Behind the wheel was a badly injured 23-year-old man. But …