Police said a neighbor shot the gunman after two adult daughters were attacked during a domestic violence confrontation.
PUYALLUP, WA — Two people were killed and a third was badly hurt after a domestic violence shooting spilled from a home into a Puyallup neighborhood Thursday morning, ending when a nearby homeowner shot the armed suspect, police said.
The shooting jolted a residential block in northwest Puyallup and left investigators sorting through two scenes, witness accounts and surveillance video. Police said the violence involved three family members and began as a domestic dispute before moving outside. By Thursday afternoon, one woman and the suspect were dead, another woman was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and detectives were still piecing together how the confrontation escalated and how the neighbor’s intervention unfolded.
Police said officers were called at about 9:10 a.m. Thursday to the 1200 block of 31st Street Northwest, near West Stewart Avenue. Capt. Kevin Gill of the Puyallup Police Department said the case started as a domestic violence incident involving three relatives. The conflict then moved out of the house and into a nearby driveway or garage area across the street, where, Gill said, one family member shot the two others. A neighbor then stepped in and shot the suspect. By the time medics and officers secured the scene, two people were dead. One of the women who had been shot was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Another woman died at the scene. Police later identified the dead woman as 23-year-old Christiannel Lyle Macapagal Maningat. Local television stations, citing police, reported the suspect was the father of both victims.
Officers spent much of the day talking with witnesses and preserving evidence from what police described as a fast-moving and deeply chaotic scene. Detectives said they were seeking surveillance footage from nearby homes to help establish exactly where shots were fired and in what order events happened. Police have not publicly said how many rounds were fired, though one nearby resident told local reporters she heard roughly 10 shots. The homeowner who shot the suspect remained at the scene and was cooperating with investigators, according to police. Authorities had not announced Friday whether that person would face any charge, and they had not released the suspect’s name. The condition of the surviving woman was described Thursday as life-threatening. By Friday, officials had not publicly provided a fuller medical update.
The shooting unfolded in a neighborhood of closely spaced homes, driveways and garages, a setting that turned a private family conflict into a public emergency within moments. Television video from the block showed crime scene tape stretched across two homes and investigators moving between properties. One nearby resident, Michelle Weingarden-Bandes, told reporters she ran outside after hearing gunfire and found three people down. She said a man at the scene kept repeating that the gunman was going to shoot children. Weingarden-Bandes, who said she is a nurse and former Air Force medic, told reporters she began checking for signs of life and performing chest compressions before police arrived. Central Pierce Fire & Rescue treated the wounded woman and took her to a hospital while chaplains came to support relatives and shaken witnesses gathered outside.
The case also fits a pattern that law enforcement agencies and victim advocates often describe in domestic violence killings: violence that begins inside a family setting can spread quickly beyond the home and place neighbors, children and first responders at risk. In this case, police said the confrontation crossed property lines and ended in a neighboring driveway or garage, widening the danger zone in a matter of seconds. That detail has become central to the inquiry because it bears on where each person was standing, who may have had a line of sight to the shooting, and what immediate threat the neighbor perceived before opening fire. Police have not said whether children were physically present in the immediate area when the shots were fired, and that remains one of several unanswered questions. Detectives also have not described what, if any, earlier calls for service may have involved the family.
Several formal steps now follow. Detectives must complete witness interviews, review any home security video, compare physical evidence across both properties and submit their findings for standard charging review if prosecutors are asked to consider any aspect of the case. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Maningat after family notification, but the office had not publicly posted complete cause-and-manner findings for all of the dead by Friday. Police also had not publicly said whether the neighbor’s use of force would be referred for an outside review, a common procedural step in complex homicide cases, or whether investigators had recovered one gun or more than one. Any decision on possible charges, if any are brought, would come after detectives finish their reports and prosecutors assess whether the evidence supports criminal liability under Washington law.
For neighbors, the shock lay in how quickly ordinary morning routines gave way to sirens, taped-off streets and a double homicide investigation. Residents told local news outlets they were stunned to see such violence on a quiet block. Video from the aftermath captured discarded personal items in the street and investigators moving carefully around marked evidence points. The emotional weight of the scene was visible as witnesses stood outside, some still trying to understand what they had seen. Even by Friday, the picture was incomplete: police had outlined the broad sequence, but key details about motive, the precise movements of each person and the final moments before the neighbor fired had not been made public. What is clear is that a family dispute ended with one daughter dead, another wounded and the father suspected of opening fire before being killed himself.
As of Friday, April 3, investigators said the case remained active. The next public milestones are expected to be additional police updates, medical examiner findings and any prosecutor review tied to the neighbor’s intervention.
Author note: Last updated April 3, 2026.