Tacoma police and firefighters are investigating a fire and assault that sent three people to hospitals with stab wounds early Wednesday. At 4:43 a.m., officers and Tacoma Fire Department crews were called to a home in the 4000 block of South 34th Street in the Oakland neighborhood. “I was sleeping, and I heard somebody say, ‘Help help help,’ and I got up, and the other dude was stabbing him,” resident Appiph Perkins said. “I tried to help him, he checked me, and stabbed me.”
Tacoma Fire Department’s preliminary report confirmed multiple small fires were intentionally set inside the house. Three people were transported to hospitals with stab wounds, and a fourth person was treated at the scene. One victim was severely burned in the fire. “He came out on fire,” Randy Green said. “Three of us got out, three got stabbed real bad, one might not make it.”
