A 24-year-old man is facing a string of serious charges in Washington state after deputies say he opened fire on a group of people during a domestic violence dispute that spilled out into a Pierce County street, then led officers on a search that ended with two police dogs and a hunt for a hidden gun. The case unfolded in the Puyallup and South Hill area, where authorities allege the confrontation turned dangerous in full view of neighbors who heard the gunfire.
According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, the trouble began on the evening of May 26th, at around 6:45, in the 9200 block of 148th Street Court East. Deputies were called to what they described as a large domestic violence altercation that was taking place out in the street. Several residents reported hearing shots fired and seeing people screaming and running, and surveillance cameras in the area captured the suspect firing shots toward a group of people.
Investigators say the man was firing in the direction of his girlfriend's family, yet despite the gunfire none of them were struck. By the time deputies arrived at the scene, the suspect had already taken off on foot, setting off a search through the surrounding neighborhood as officers tried to track him down before he could slip away. What had started as a family argument had escalated into a shooting that put bystanders directly in the line of fire.
To locate him, deputies turned to a police dog named Coda. The canine had to be hoisted over a fence into a retention pond area, where the suspect was believed to be hiding. There, deputies found the man shirtless and hunkered down in tall grass, bunkered into the vegetation in an apparent effort to avoid being seen. He was taken into custody without further violence, but the weapon used in the shooting was nowhere to be found at that point.
Footage from the arrest captured a tense exchange as deputies pressed the man about the missing firearm. He insisted he was unarmed, telling officers that he did not have a gun, and claiming that someone else had been the one to pull a weapon. Deputies pushed back, telling him he had been recorded on video holding a gun and warning him that if a child were to find the discarded weapon, he could end up facing an additional charge on top of the others.
The suspect still did not reveal where he had left the gun. Instead, a second police dog, this one named Clark, was brought in and managed to sniff out the firearm in some bushes near a neighborhood park. The recovery of the weapon handed investigators a key piece of evidence, and the role played by the two dogs was later highlighted by the sheriff's office, which credited the pair of canines with helping bring the search to a close.
Prosecutors have since filed a sweeping set of charges. The man, identified by FOX 13 Seattle as 24-year-old Tremarco Green, faces five counts of assault in the first degree, along with a count of kidnapping in the first degree for pulling his girlfriend into a car and preventing her from leaving when she wanted to go. He has also been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. He was booked into the Pierce County Jail, where his bail has been set at 200,000 dollars.