By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A Vader man is jailed today after stepping in between his parents during a fight in front of a Morton motel, which ended when his father suffered a serious head injury and then subsequently died, according to the Morton Police Department.
Travis M. Myers, 27, was arrested after the Tuesday night incident; his father Michael K. Myers, 52, passed away on Thursday at a Seattle hospital, according to Chief Dan Mortensen.
“There was some kind of argument between between the mother and the father, apparently a physical altercation,” Mortensen said. “The son stepped in, pushed the father. He fell to the sidewalk and struck his head.”
An officer called about 10 p.m. to the scene on the 200 block of Westlake Avenue did CPR with help from a trooper and the father was transported to Harborview Medical Center, according to the chief.
Michael K. Myers passed away on Thanksgiving Day, Mortensen said.
The family is from Vader and the men had come to the Seasons Motel to pick up the mother who had taken a room there after her arrest by a trooper for a reason the chief didn’t disclose.
The son was arrested on Wednesday for second-degree assault, but the prosecutor will be evaluating the appropriate charge given the death, according to Mortensen.