TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The bystander killed by a stray bullet in Tacoma was a city employee, 40-year-old Lisa Marie Melancon (MEL’-an-son),
Tacoma spokesman Robert McNair-Huff says she had been with the city 15 years as a building code enforcement officer and helped found programs that worked with property owners on problems such as junked cars.
When she stepped outside her home late Thursday night because of a disturbance in the street, she was shot in the head.
Police spokesman Mark Fulghum said she was hit by a random shot from a car leaving the scene.