4th Tacoma Homicide of 2024: Anthony Haskins II
Here’s what I can tell you about Anthony Haskins Jr. He was thirty-five years old. He was a good son. He was protective of his family. And at 7:00pm on February 5, 2024 he was found unresponsive in the 2700 block of South Orchard Street. The Pierce County Medical Examiner would later determine his cause of death as ‘blunt force trauma to the head’. He was the fourth Tacoma homicide of 2024.
I can also tell you that his murderer has yet to be caught.
Sometimes I have social media accounts, newspaper articles, TV news spots, obituaries, and charging documents to tell you who a person was and what happened to them. Other times, there is very little information. I can tell you that the murder of Anthony Haskins Jr. was all but ignored by local media with Tacoma Weekly’s only mention of it being that it was a gun homicide when according to the medical examiner, it wasn’t.
Someone knows what happened to Anthony Haskins Jr. on the evening of February 5, 2024. If you were in the area at the time or know anything that might help authorities find Anthony’s killer please don’t hesitate to contact the Tacoma Police Department at (253) 591-5959 or Pierce County Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Anthony’s family have an active GoFundMe account open. If you have the means and wish to have a direct impact on a local family who could use the help, click here and donate.
In cases like this we rely on more on friends and family of the victim than usual to tell us who Anthony was and share any thoughts or memories they might want to share. If you knew Anthony and want to talk about him, that’s what the comment section is for.
- Jack