TACOMA, Wash. — A 36-year-old man is dead after being shot during an alleged home intrusion early Sunday morning, south of Tacoma in unincorporated Pierce County.

Around 1:45 a.m. Sept. 14, a 51-year-old homeowner called 911 to report he had shot an intruder near 160th Street Court East and 13th Avenue Court East. Deputies arrived to find the man on the back porch with a single gunshot wound, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities said the suspect was captured on multiple home surveillance cameras walking around nearby residences prior to the shooting.

"In the surveillance video, it does show that suspect had a gun in his hand and was actively banging on [the] back door of that homeowner in a fully fenced backyard," said Carly Cappetto, public information officer with the P

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