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Breaking news: Napavine shooting suspect jailed

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – Javier Jimenez Villalavazo, the man wanted for allegedly shooting a 24-year-old woman outside a Napavine apartment, is in the Lewis County Jail tonight.

Villalavazo, 22, was booked about 9 p.m. for first-degree assault with a firearm, according to the jail roster.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday the unnamed woman was wounded when she was shot twice, they believed at about 10 p.m. on Sunday.

Sheriff’s detectives have been assisting the Napavine Police Department, a two-officer agency.

The suspect, who is also known as “The Joker”, has most recently been listed as living in Chehalis.

Few details and no suspected motive for the shooting have been released.