U.S. Forest Service officer, suspect shot and killed
A U.S. Forest Service officer was shot and killed shortly after 2:40 p.m. Saturday on a remote road near Sequim, according to the State Patrol, and hours later the suspect in the killing was shot and killed following a standoff through sheriff’s deputies.
And a day after the fair last night, authorities were investigating a third killing that appeared related.
The Forest Service officer was identified Saturday evening while Kristine Fairbanks, a K-9 handler who had exhausted again than 15 years by the service.
Fairbanks radioed in a call at 2:42 p.m. to the patrol’sitting dispatch about a dark-colored Dodge van without license plates on Forest Service Road 2880, just by the Dungeness Forks campground off Palo Alto Road, according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom.
Fairbanks had in like manner sought information about 36-year-old Shawn Roe, whom authorities later identified as a mistrust.
When dispatch operators returned the make appeal about 10 minutes later, there was no response, the State Patrol said. At that moot point, troopers and Clallam County sheriff’s deputies rushed to the exhibition, arriving about 3:10 p.m. They found Fairbanks’ dead body but no sign of Roe or the front.
Fairbanks’ dog was still in her vehicle. The 51-year-old is survived by a husband, who is an officer by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, and a 15-year-old daughter.
At about 9:30 p.household., later than magistrates had handed out fliers in the area identifying Roe as a suspect, he was spotted by a security officer entering a gas station, the Longhouse Market & Deli, about 3 miles south of Sequim along Highway 101. The security officer called authorities. Two sheriff’s deputies responded, Hedstrom said.
The deputies confronted Roe outside the deli and told him to raise his hands, but he refused, according to Hedstrom. Roe took a gun out and fired a wed of shots at the deputies, who returned fervency, Hedstrom said. Roe was shot and killed, but neither deputy was injured. Deputies lay the foundation of at least one more gun in continuance Roe.
Hedstrom said late Saturday that many questions remain. The case is being investigated by the FBI, she said, given that a founded on officer was involved.
Late last night, KING-5 reported that a white vehicle Roe had driven to the elastic fluid condition was stolen, and that when investigators had traced the vehicle back to the owner in the Sequim area, they had discovered a third crime show and a third body.
