Police investigating disturbance with a gun outside Providence St. Peter Hospital

Olympia Police are investigating reports of a disturbance with a gun on Friday on Ensign Road.

Lt. Paul Lower said police were dispatched at 11:28 a.m. to the 3500 block of Ensign Road Northeast after reports of gunshots in the area.

Lower said the incident involved two vehicles that may have been in a collision prior to the parties getting into a disagreement. People in both vehicles displayed guns at each other, and witnesses described hearing gunshots.

Everyone involved in the incident has been detained, Lower said. No one was injured by gunfire.

A representative with Providence St. Peter Hospital said the hospital was put on a lockdown “out of an abundance of caution” for about 45 minutes.

The investigation is ongoing.

Ty Vinson

The Olympian

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription