Ashley Hiruko
Investigative Reporter
About
Ashley Hiruko reports on topics involving policing and the behind-the-scenes conduct of city leaders. Her investigations have examined police killings, allegations of abuse and sex trafficking, and labor issues.
She lives in Seattle with her husband, son, and Maltese.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Past President, Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
Stories
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Crime
How the journey of one gun tells the story of many
Last November, a 14 year old boy shot and killed a fellow student at Ingraham high school in Seattle. The gun that student used traveled through the hands of multiple teenagers before it reached him, starting in an unsecured closet.
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Government
About the gun that killed a boy at Seattle’s Ingraham High School
This is the story of a gun. It begins with a 14-year-old boy showing it off. It ends with another boy dying in a high school hallway.
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Crime
7 graphics on kids and guns in the Seattle area
Sixty-eight kids died by gun between 2017 and 2022 in King County. That's like three classrooms wiped out.
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Crime
Teens are using 3D printers to make guns in Seattle area
In February, a SeaTac mother called police after she found a firearm in her 13-year-old son’s bed.
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Police vehicle pursuits mostly on pause in Seattle due to lack of training
A new law intended to loosen some restrictions on police vehicle pursuits may have the effect of curtailing those pursuits instead.
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'I'm still healing.' Boarding school survivors recount stories of abuse, trauma
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Government
'She would hide in the corner and hope the rats wouldn’t get her'
The air was smoky with welcome outside the gathering hall on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
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'Just one of many tragic stories': Uncovering the story of Chemawa Indian School
For 150 years, the federal government operated more than 400 boarding schools for Indigenous children who had been forcibly removed from their families. One example of the brutal legacy of these boarding schools lies in Oregon, in the unmarked grave of Charlie Fiester. Soundside caught up with KUOW investigative reporter Ashley Hiruko to talk about Charlie's story.
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A 12-year-old boy was shot running from a Native boarding school. His tribe mourns him today
This is the first in a series of stories KUOW is publishing on the Native boarding school experience in the Pacific Northwest.
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Raz Simone to stand trial, with some claims dismissed, judge rules