28th Tacoma Homicide of 2022: Tenisio Fimate (aka Em)
In the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, 30-year-old Tenisio Fiamate and a friend were hanging out on the waterfront near Thea’s Park when someone shot both of them. Tenisio was shot in the head. His friend drove them both to the hospital, but Tenisio died becoming Tacoma’s 28th homicide of 2022.
Though his friend survived and it has been nearly a year and a half since Tenisio’s murder, I don’t have many other details of what led up to the shooting because this case remains unsolved. If you have any information, please don’t hesitate to contact the Tacoma Police Department at (253) 591-5959 or click here.
While I can’t tell you much about Tenisio’s death, I can share what I’ve learned about his life. His friend called him Em. He had six children, four boys and two girls, all of whom never get to see their father again or hear him play music in front of them. Em was a talented musician. And if he was at a party where everyone was laughing, you can bet it was because of something Em said or did because he loved to make people smile.
The shooting of Tenisio and his friend was one of three shootings in Tacoma over a 24 hour period during a year that had a record number of homicides. This level of violence makes it all too easy to forget that each homicide shatters dozens of lives. Family, friends, coworkers, and lovers are all changed forever in ways they could not predict and never deserved.
Since there seems no way to stop homicides from happening, TacomaStories does its best to say the names of those we lost and remember them. As always, the comment section is reserved for those who knew the victim and want to share thoughts or memories of him.
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