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Two dead in Lakewood shooting

07:29 AM PDT on Monday, June 23, 2008

By DREW MIKKELSEN / KING 5 News

LAKEWOOD, Wash. - Two men are dead after a shooting that occurred after a soccer game on Saturday night.

Miseo Vehar, 21, was at the park for a family picnic when he was shot and killed.
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Eleven-year-old Lucy Church was having a slumber party for her birthday when the gunfire erupted across the street.

"We were all watching a movie and it was quiet, and then all of a sudden it went boom, boom, boom. Oh my gosh!" she said.

Lucy's grandfather, Ray Erickson, ran over to Springbrook Park to see if he could help. He found someone bleeding.

"He's got a bullet hole on his side and he's got a pistol to his side," said Erickson.

Two men who had been playing in the soccer game together had gotten into an argument and started shooting at each other.

One man was hit in the leg, but two others were killed.

Police say one of them was an innocent bystander. Miseo Vehar, 21, was at the park for a family picnic when he was shot and killed.

Relatives said Vehar had been living at a nearby apartment for the last five years.

Erickson doesn't care what the motive for the shooting was, he doesn't like people putting his family at risk.

"We live in a trailer park… one bullet can travel through, like five trailers," he said. "It's a ball game for crying out loud. Why shoot someone over a damn ballgame?"

One of the men killed was one of the shooters. The other is still on the run. Police say there's a videotape from a nearby apartment complex that apparently shows that man running away from the park

The third man who was shot - and survived - ran away from the park and ended up turning himself in to St. Claire Hospital about a mile away.

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