By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the man who died during an armed confrontation yesterday in a Yakima mobile home park after blood found in a Lewis County motel room led police to check on him, is a 55-year-old who lived with his mother at the mobile home park.
News reporter Chris Bristol writes Yakima police said the man turned a gun on himself and they suspect the motel room blood could have been from an earlier suicide attempt.
Lewis County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Chief Criminal Deputy Stacy Brown said deputies were notified on Monday blood had been found at the Cowlitz River Lodge in Packwood and investigated it. They asked Yakima police yesterday to do a welfare check on the man who had been staying in the room, she said.
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I hope they do a DNA comparison on the blood in the hotel to make sure it’s his blood and not some one elses.
If it is so poorly written, then don’t read it. It’s a LOT better than any reporting you would find in the Chronicle or any other local paper…
this story is so poorly written! i mean the run toghter sentences al all of it ……..its just another slop job by a ‘reporter” ……