Updated at 7:23 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A rural Centralia man grabbed his shotgun and pushed an intruder out the door this morning and held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office was called about 7:30 a.m. to a home near the far end of Little Hanaford Road, roughly 10 miles east of town. They learned the residents, a man and woman, were sitting in their house when a stranger walked in with a serrated steak knife in his hand, according to Cmdr. Steve Aust.
The 62-year-old man grabbed his gun and shoved the stranger outside, and then pushed him a little farther out, Aust said.
“He held him at gunpoint until our guys arrived; he didn’t offer any resistance at that point,” Aust said.
The only injury was the intruder had to get a couple of stitches in his head because the resident hit him at some point with the butt end of the gun, Aust said.
The man, Sean M. Ferrel, 43, from Bremerton, was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital and then was to be booked into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree burglary, Aust said.
Aust said it’s not clear what he would have been doing in the area, or why he entered someone else’s house.
“The guy’s not local either,” he said. “It sounds like one of these high on drugs (things).”
Aust said that at some point there also may have been a machete involved, but further details weren’t yet available.