Stacia Glenn: 3 months after a man was found dead in a Tacoma parking lot, it s ruled a homicide
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/17/2020 Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Dec. 17 The death of a man in a Tacoma parking lot three months ago was ruled a homicide this week, police said.
About 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 18, a passerby flagged down a police officer to report finding a man who was unresponsive. The man, later identified as 59-year-old Richard Piel, was found in a parking lot on Puyallup Avenue underneath the Interstate 705 overpass.
Although both the passerby and officer performed CPR on Piel, he was pronounced dead at the scene.