Police looking for suspect who shot woman near rose garden in Point Defiance Park

TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma police are investigating an attempted armed robbery at Point Defiance Park that sent a 55-year-old woman to the hospital with a grazed, gunshot wound to her head.

On Tuesday at 5:37 p.m., the woman was walking to her car near the park’s rose garden when a masked, armed robber tried stealing her purse, according to Tacoma Police Department Public Information Officer Wendy Haddow.

The woman “struggled” over her purse, then a gunshot was fired that grazed the woman’s head.