24th Tacoma Homicide of 2022: Alejandro Lloret

In 2009, a 29-year-old mother was shot and killed in her Salishan apartment. Three individuals went to prison for the crime. The shooter got fourteen years. The other two were charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance and got five years. One of those two was Alejandro Lloret.

Since then Alejandro had mostly stayed out of trouble and become a dedicated family man. On the evening of June 26, 2022, Alejandro Lloret, now 38 was at his house in the 900 block of East 52nd Street with his wife and three kids. It was about 7:30pm. They had a few people over. And then, Alejandro’s former codefendant arrived with his older brother. The brothers were looking for a man called ‘Pony Boy’, but when they found he was not there, they left.

Three hours later, the brothers returned. Both were drunk. Both were armed. Neither knocked on the front door as they went through the house into the back yard where Alejandro, his wife, and others were.

Alejandro and the younger brother began arguing. The younger brother had been released from prison just six months earlier while Alejandro had been home for years. He suspected (incorrectly) that Alejandro had snitched to the police to receive a lighter sentence. As the argument got heated, Alejandro’s wife went into the house.

“It doesn’t have to be like this,” Alejandro said.

“It’s time,” the other man said.

Alejandro’s wife returned to the back yard with a large can of mace and demanded both brothers leave. When they refused, Alejandro’s wife sprayed the older brother with mace.

Alejandro’s 13-year-old son watched from a window as the older brother fired four shots into Alejandro, causing him to fall to the ground. The young teen then ran to grab his siblings and hide.

Gunfire erupted from multiple sources at this point. The older of the two brothers got shot in the back. Alejandro’s wife was shot in the calf. Alejandro screamed, “STOP!” and yelled for his wife, but the younger brother stood over him and fired three shots, killing him.

Alejandro was the twenty-fourth Tacoma homicide of 2022 and one of thirteen people shot during a particularly violent 24 hours in Tacoma. By June 26, 2021 we had only eleven homicides. Both brothers have been arrested and charged with Alejandro’s murder.

What I could find of Alejandro’s life online told me one thing repeatedly. He loved his children. His kids were his life. Some people are just good with kids. And to have someone like that taken away from the children in his life and murdered in front of one of his children is the most senseless sort of murder possible.

His death was a year and a half ago, but I can imagine what Alejandro’s family’s holiday season is like without hearing his laughter or seeing his smile or watching him make his kids laugh during a family dinner. I know I’ll be thinking about them.

As always, the comment section is reserved for those who knew Alejandro and want to share thoughts, stories, or memories of him.

- Jack Cameron

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