6 dead, 2 wounded in US shooting spree (10:30 a.m.)
ALGER, Washington - A man fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy responding to a call Tuesday in northwestern Washington state, then led authorities on a car chase and killed five other people before turning himself in, officials said. Two others were wounded.
A state trooper was among those injured in Skagit County, north of Seattle, authorities said. The dead were found at multiple scenes, state trooper Keith Leary said at a news conference.
Among the dead were the deputy and another person killed at the same location; two construction workers who were found shot nearby; a person killed at another location; and a motorist fatally shot on Interstate 5.
A motorcyclist was shot and wounded at a gas station in the town of Alger, and the trooper was wounded in the arm as the suspect raced along Interstate 5, authorities said.
That suspect, reportedly a man known to Skagit County authorities, eventually turned himself in at a Skagit County sheriff’s office in Mount Vernon. (AP)
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