Ash Street shootout information

Ash Street shootout
Ash Street shootout
Date	September 23, 1989
Location	Hilltop, Tacoma, Washington, United States of America
Caused by	Tensions over drug crime
Resulted in	Increase in police presence in Hilltop; Shift toward community-oriented policing; More block-level organizing in Hilltop;
Parties
Lead figures
	Bill Foulk None proven in court Ray Fjetland
Number
Casualties and losses

The Ash Street shootout was a gunfight on September 23, 1989, in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, United States, between off-duty United States Army Rangers and people associated with one Ranger's across-the-street neighbors, who were suspected of drug dealing and gang activity.^[a] An already tense neighborhood situation, wherein Staff Sergeant Bill Foulk^[b] and others had been advocating for more police action against drug crime, came to a head during a barbecue at Foulk's home on Ash Street, attended by other community members and a few other members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion.^{[# 2]} Both groups of belligerents claim that the other harassed them during the party. Foulk called for assistance from more Rangers, who arrived with privately owned firearms. Starting at 9:20 PM, 12 or so Rangers^{[# 1]} and 15 to 20 people from across the street exchanged gunfire with handguns and long guns for five to thirty minutes^{[# 3]} until police arrived. It is unclear which group fired first; both sides blamed the other.^[c] The conflict ended without reported injury after 100 to 300 rounds^{[# 4]} were fired. Foulk initially affirmed this account,^[1] but since 2009 has said that one or more people on the other side were shot but fled.^[2]^[3]

Two people suspected of shooting at the Rangers were arrested; one was convicted of second-degree assault. Some of the Rangers' guns were confiscated. The incident spurred the local community to organize more. The national attention that it drew influenced reform in the Tacoma Police Department—which previously had often not responded to crimes that officers did not personally witness—shifting them toward a model of community-oriented policing.

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