Post by Logan on Feb 27, 2016 6:17:23 GMT -6
BELFAIR, Wash. — A gunman who killed four people at a home in rural Washington State called an officer he previously encountered to say he had shot his family, leading to an hourslong standoff Friday that ended with his suicide, the authorities said.
A 12-year-old girl related to the victims survived and was taken to the hospital for an evaluation, the Mason County sheriff’s chief deputy, Ryan Spurling said. Her condition was not immediately known.
The officer who took the shooter’s call went to the home across Puget Sound from Seattle with another deputy. The authorities negotiated with the man for about three hours before a SWAT team entered the house in a heavily wooded area and found the bodies.
The gunman “apparently came outside the home and shot himself,” Sheriff Casey Salisbury said. “It’s a terrible tragedy.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/us/washington-state-man-kills-his-family-and-then-himself.html
A 12-year-old girl related to the victims survived and was taken to the hospital for an evaluation, the Mason County sheriff’s chief deputy, Ryan Spurling said. Her condition was not immediately known.
The officer who took the shooter’s call went to the home across Puget Sound from Seattle with another deputy. The authorities negotiated with the man for about three hours before a SWAT team entered the house in a heavily wooded area and found the bodies.
The gunman “apparently came outside the home and shot himself,” Sheriff Casey Salisbury said. “It’s a terrible tragedy.”
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/us/washington-state-man-kills-his-family-and-then-himself.html