Washington Ceasefire

• Incident Date: February 11, 2010
• Fatalities: 1
• Injuries: 0
• Address: 1700 block of 112th Avenue Northeast
• City: Bellevue
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98004

Seattle Times, The (WA) - Friday, February 12, 2010
Author: Seattle Times staff and news services
 
Suspect in attack is found dead

A man wanted for pistol-whipping his ex-girlfriend Wednesday in Bellevue was found dead early Thursday morning in a van in the 1700 block of 112th Avenue Northeast.

Bellevue police say Jay Blake Williams died of an apparent suicide.

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• Incident Date: May 22, 2009
• Fatalities: 0
• Injuries: 1
• Address: 12500 block of Greenwood Avenue North
• City: Seattle
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98133

Seattle Times, published on their website at:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009251687_webhostage22m.html

Originally published Friday, May 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM

By Sara Jean Green

Seattle Times staff reporter

A Seattle police officer shot a suicidal man Friday morning after he threatened to kill himself while holding his 20-month-old son hostage inside his North Seattle apartment.

The man, 29, was taken to Harborview Medical Center with what was described as a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the face. The toddler was not harmed.

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• Incident Date: June 2, 2009
• Fatalities: 0
• Injuries: 1
• Address: 11700 block of Airport Road
• City: Everett
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98204

Anonymous. The Herald. Everett, Wash.: Jun 04, 2009.

(Copyright 2009 The Daily Herald Co., Everett, Wash.)

EVERETT -- A young man was hospitalized Tuesday evening after he reportedly shot himself at Sam's Gun Shop.

Deputies were called to the gun shop in the 11700 block of Airport Road about 7:20 p.m., Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said. The 19-year-old man was in one of the bays when the shooting occurred, she said.

Medics rushed him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His condition was not known Wednesday afternoon.

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• Incident Date: April 4, 2009
• Fatalities: 6
• Injuries: 0
• Address: 19718 Orting Kapowsin Hwy E
• City: Graham
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98338

By Seattle Times staff, Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company
posted on their website at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008986370_websixdead04m...

GRAHAM, Pierce County — A 34-year-old man apparently shot and killed his five children in a mobile-home park in the Graham area of Pierce County, then drove to Auburn and killed himself, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said Saturday.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer called the crime scene the worst he has seen in his nine years with the sheriff's office.

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• Incident Date: February 14, 2009
• Fatalities: 2
• Injuries: 0
• City: Granger
• State: Washington

02/15/09 two briefs
Adriana Janovich. Yakima Herald - Republic. Yakima, Wash.: Feb 15, 2009. pg. B.1

Man kills self after shooting girlfriend

yakima herald-republic

GRANGER -- A man shot his girlfriend at a Granger tavern, then turned the gun on himself at his home two blocks away in the early hours of Valentine's Day, police said Saturday.

Witnesses at the Circle Inn told police that Salvador Ramirez shot Eliva Antunez Roman in the head, then left the tavern.

She was 49. He was 64. Both lived in Granger.

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• Incident Date: March 1, 2009
• Fatalities: 1
• Injuries: 0
• Address: 11700 block of Airport Road
• City: Everett
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98204

Anonymous. The Herald. Everett, Wash.: Mar 03, 2009.

(Copyright 2009 The Daily Herald Co., Everett, Wash.)

EVERETT -- Police believe a man intentionally shot himself Sunday morning inside an Everett gun range.

The man, 45, rented a gun at Sam's Gun Shop and Range and entered one of the bays. He fired the gun a few times and then turned the gun on himself, Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.

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• Incident Date: February 1, 2009
• Fatalities: 1
• Injuries: 0
• Address: 7801 Campbell Road
• City: Toppenish
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98948

Dave Leder. Yakima Herald - Republic. Yakima, Wash.: Feb 2, 2009. pg. B.1

(Copyright (c) 2009 Yakima Herald-Republic)

Mike Rummel, fired in 2005, kills himself after police pursuit

TOPPENISH -- A fired Yakima police officer who had gone through several years of legal battles in an attempt to regain his job shot himself to death Sunday afternoon after a police pursuit, authorities said.

Mike Rummel, 41, died at the scene on Campbell Road outside of Toppenish.

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• Incident Date: February 3, 2009
• Fatalities: 1
• Injuries: 0
• Address: North 12th and Pearl streets
• City: Tacoma
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98406

Stacey Mulick. The News Tribune. Tacoma, Wash.: Feb 5, 2009. pg. B.2

(Copyright (c) 2009 The News Tribune)

A man allowed his wife to leave their North End Tacoma apartment late Tuesday, then fatally shot himself, ending a three-hour standoff with officers, Tacoma police said Wednesday.

Officers entered the apartment on North 12th and Pearl streets and found the mortally wounded 42-year-old man. Paramedics were unable to revive him, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

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• Incident Date: October 21, 2008
• Fatalities: 1
• Injuries: 0
• City: Burlington
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98233

By Jaime Adame
Wenatchee World staff writer
Posted October 31, 2008, http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20081031/NEWS04/710319996

BURLINGTON — The man who robbed a Leavenworth bank at gunpoint earlier this month died last week in Skagit County when he shot himself during a police pursuit after another bank robbery, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

On Wednesday, employees of Cashmere Valley Bank on Wednesday were shown photos of 51-year-old William A. Chapman of Rockport, according to the news release.

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• Incident Date: January 7, 2009
• Fatalities: 1
• Injuries: 0
• Address: 1800 block of Aurora Avenue
• City: East Wenatchee
• State: Washington
• Zip Code: 98802

Wenatchee World
Posted January 08, 2009, http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090108/NEWS04/901080271

EAST WENATCHEE — A 49-year-old East Wenatchee man shot and killed himself with a rifle in an apartment complex parking lot Wednesday afternoon, East Wenatchee police said.

Assistant Chief Dan Reierson declined to release the man's name, but said he was found at about 3:47 p.m. outside an SUV in the parking lot in the 1800 block of Aurora Avenue. The man did not live at the apartments, said Reierson, and only a single shot was fired.

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