INSIDE Kilmer visits district, gives update. A4
COMMUNITY It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Kitsap has homelessness. A2
SCHOOLS South Kitsap schools searching for a new logo. A7
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Man fires shots during ‘free-for-all’ at Lund parking lot By BOB SMITH
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Six shots were fired in the air during a late-night melee Aug. 17 behind the AM/PM convenience store at SE Lund Avenue and Jackson Avenue SE in Port Orchard. No one was hit during the barrage. At least 12 individuals, all in their late teens or early 20s, were involved
in the skirmish, which Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Scott Wilson characterized as a “chaotic situation.” He said the altercation apparently began at the McDonald’s parking lot on Mile Hill Road in Port Orchard and moved on to a small strip shopping area on SE Lund, located across the street from South Kitsap Regional Park.
Wilson said the incident spiraled out of control at the Mile Hill Drive parking lot following an accusation that someone at the scene had almost been run over. The incident was broke up after a spate of name-calling and mutual pushing. Most of the participants left and reconvened behind the convenience store on Lund and Jackson avenues, where more threats
and thrown punches ensued. Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded at 9:43 p.m. following multiple 911 reports of a drive-by shooting. According to police interviews with those involved in the incident and witnesses, a 23-year-old male, who was a passenger in a red-colored Acura, went to the trunk of the car,
took out a loaded handgun, and fired it skyward. Fighting stopped at that point and participants scattered from the scene, according to those interviewed by law-enforcement officers. Port Orchard Police and sheriff’s deputies subsequently stopped the fleeing Acura about five minutes later SEE MELEE, A3
WSP investigating death of Port Orchard man in car crash Kicking up her heels for the start of school Chris Chancellor / Independent
Several performances occurred on the stage that was set up for the Aug. 15 Back to School Celebration at Marcus Whitman Junior High. Amy Miller, the district’s director of community relations, said about 6,000 people attended the three-hour event.
PORT ANGELES — A State Patrol investigation into a fatal wreck Aug. 11 involving a Port Orchard man who was being tailed by narcotics investigators could take six weeks or longer, an agency spokesman said today. State Patrol detectives will undertake an extensive, complete inves-
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Police still searching for luring suspect A man who Port Orchard Police said attempted to lure a girl into his car near the Kitsap County Courthouse Aug. 9 remains at large. The girl, who police say is 12 years old, said the suspect enticed her with candy and clothing before displaying a knife as he walked toward her. According to police, the girl’s dog growled at the man. They then ran home.
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tigation of the circumstances surrounding the death of Albert Edward “Eddie” Boe IV of Port Orchard, said Trooper Russ Winger, spokesman for the State Patrol. Boe, 31, died at the scene of the 1:30 p.m. wreck.
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The suspect is a white male about 6 feet tall, thin and muscular, with a balding or shaved head, and a scratch or scar on Police sketch the left side of his neck. He was described as wearing SEE SUSPECT, A3