Five people are dead, including a gunman, after a shooting in rural Washington State Friday, according to the Mason County Sheriff’s Office.
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SWAT team on the scene of a deadly shooting in Washington State Feb. 26, 2016. Images from the scene showed heavily armed officers staging in a wooded area. Pigott says the couple who lived in the house had been married for four or five years. They said she will be taken in by Child Protective Services, until family members can be notified. The husband had a heating and air conditioning contractor business, and had recently been hospitalised.
The Seattle Times reported that a SWAT team later entered the man’s home and found four people dead.
Police vehicles line the road near a rural property near Belfair, Washington, February 26, 2016 in this handout photo provided by Mason County Sheriff’s Office in Shelton, Washington.
Mason County Sheriff Casey Salisbury called the incident a “tragic day for everyone”, according to CBS affiliate KOMO.
Four victims confirmed and the suspect is deceased.
The newspaper quoted Mason County Sheriff Deputy Chief Ryan Spurling as saying that a man called law enforcement on Friday morning and reported that he shot two children, a woman and another person.
Officers responded to the private residence at around 10 a.m. and tried to negotiate with him before he shot himself, the sheriff’s office said. One child got away from the shooting.
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Chief Deputy Ryan Spurling says they have not been able to confirm whether anyone has been shot because officers have not been inside the home. The girl was taken to the hospital to be checked out.
