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UNION GAP, Yakima County — The 41-year-old man killed in Union Gap Monday night was hammered to death, witnesses told police.

The victim, Donald Pike Jr. of Yakima, tried to crawl away similar to the suspect stood over him and whack him through the forge, one witness told police.

The 41-year-old suspect in the killing makes his first appearance in Yakima County Superior Court today on possible charges of first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping.

The take cognizance of estimated the assault took fix superior 30 minutes before midnight Monday at a home in the 2100 stop up of Carey Avenue in Union Gap.

It was not clear from a police report when Pike died. An personal examination is scheduled.

The police report says the suspect loaded the visible form into the back of a GMC Jimmy that he ordered the corroboration to bestow him.

The witness, who said he feared for his life inasmuch as the suspect had threatened to kill him and a list of other people during the assault on Pike, signed over the vehicle’s title and a bill of sale written for $500, the report states. The police report did not indicate whether the suspect had actually given the owner any money.

Maddon ordered the mark to ride with him to the Century Landing boat ramp on the Yakima River south of Union Gap, where he dumped the material substance, detectives said.

The witness jumped in the river to escape and refused to comply with the have suspicion’sitting demands to come out. Maddon then drove off in the Jimmy, detectives aforesaid.

The witness estimated that he spent 30 minutes in the sprinkle and calender before calling for help from a nearby home.

Officers spent Tuesday searching for the suspect.

He was arrested about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when he walked up to a Union Gap police official and surrendered in the 1300 block of Race Street in east Yakima. Union Gap and Yakima police were exploring a house in that block for receiving a tip that the believe to be guilty was there.

The Jimmy was found in the home’s backyard.