Crime report

The confrontation with law enforcement often becomes the first step in drug users taking personal responsibility and turning their lives around... Without that some drug users won't be forced to confront themselves and may very well die as a result.

Attaching the harsh penalties of felony drug conviction to entirely innocent and passive conduct exceeds the legislature’s powers,

Juveniles receive a softer, more rehabilitative approach by the state's justice system than do older adult gang members, so juveniles are more likely to get the gang's shooting assignments.

Do you feel safe when you walk down the streets of your home town

Shots are fired but who shot first? What can be determined from, video, witnesses, local police investigations?

The man's name hasn't been released as the investigation continues. No arrests have been made.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Detective Division with The Union Gap Police Department at (509)248-0430.

The so called "Ferguson Effect" and BLM protests have many departments back on their heels.

There have been a couple of higher profile homicides recently that Brusic says, so far, don't rise to the level of murders

The shooting was reported at 2:50 a.m. last Thursday in the 700 block of West Seventh Street in Wapato.