Update: One Dead After Morning Shooting in Puyallup Home

Update, 5:30 p.m. Sunday:

A Puyallup man remained hospitalized in grave condition Sunday afternoon after police say his 69-year-old father shot him and fatally shot his sister while they slept.

The 69-year-old called police just before 3:30 a.m. Sunday to say he had just shot his adult son and daughter, according to a statement from Puyallup Deputy Police Chief Dave McDonald.

Police surrounded the home in the 1500 block of Fifth St. S.E. and got the man to come out.

“It was a very tense moment in front of the house,” McDonald told KIRO-TV. “Our officers get here. We surround the place and the dispatch tells us that he has put the gun down and he’s coming out.” 

Inside, they found a man and woman shot in different rooms of the house. Both had been shot in the head.

They also found two boys, ages 6 and 7, unhurt. The boys are the sons of the male shooting victim and lived at the home with their father and grandparents. The suspect’s wife was also at the home unhurt. The boys were taken into protective custody.

The woman, whom KIRO reported was 43 years old, died Sunday morning at Tacoma General Hospital. The man is 46, the station reported.

Police had been to the home before. Several people who live in the home had restraining orders against each other, KING 5 reported.

"Family disputes between the brother and sister, the parents and son, the parents and the daughter, some of the grandchildren of the shooting victims over the last several years,” McDonald told the station.

The suspect was booked into the Pierce County jail on murder and attempted murder charges.

ORIGINAL:

A 69-year-old Puyallup man is in custody Sunday morning after he reportedly shot two people in their sleep and then called police to tell them what happened.

The News Tribune is reporting the shooting occurred at a home on the 1500 block of 5th Street S.E. and the victims were his adult son and daughter.

KOMO News reports that the two victims were found alive but the woman has since died of her injuries after both were taken to Tacoma General Hospital.

Others in the home, the man's wife and two children were unhurt.

According to The Seattle Times, police have responded to the shooter's home in the past due to fighters between himself and the adult children.