Drunken Assailant Attempts Point-Blank Shooting on Pacific Avenue
An intoxicated man confronted an employee of the Richmond Paper Company, but the victim managed to deflect the weapon during the struggle.
Crazed by excessive drinking, C. I. Kristerson, 25 years old, made a desperate attempt to shoot down Eugene T. Pattison, an employee of the Richmond Paper Company in front of the paper company's store at 1728-30 Pacific Avenue, at 6:30 last evening. The men are unacquainted and Kristerson admitted after sobering up that he did not bear any grudge against the man whose life he attempted, but that he was too intoxicated to know what he was doing. Pattison had just stepped from the paper store, intending to depart for his home, when Kristerson confronted him with a loaded revolver in his hand. The maniac raised his arm unsteadily, pointing the weapon directly at Pattison's head, but the latter, with a quick movement, brushed the man's arm to one side just as Kristerson pulled the trigger. Kristerson was easily overpowered and taken to the police station. It developed later that he had made threats to kill his sister at Fern Hill during the day.
“The maniac raised his arm unsteadily, pointing the weapon directly at Pattison's head, but the latter, with a quick movement, brushed the man's arm to one side.”
Pacific Avenue remains the historic spine of downtown Tacoma. While the Richmond Paper Company is long gone, the city still grapples with the intersection of substance-induced violence and public safety in its commercial corridors.
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