Wash. man told cop he killed family

Mason County Sheriff’s Chief Criminal Deputy Ryan Spurling, right, escorts Adeline Peebles, left, and a child away from the scene of a fatal shooting Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, near Belfair, Wash.

Police surrounded the home near the community of Belfair, about 25 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound, but did not immediately enter the residence because the man was armed with a handgun, Spurling said, according to the Seattle Times. Authorities negotiated with him for at least two hours.

The neighbour, Pigott, recounted stepping outside his own home between 8:30 and 9pm on Thursday to fetch some firewood off his porch when he heard gunshots – “four or five rounds and then a pause, and then another four or five rounds and a pause and then a couple more rounds”.

Jack Pigott, who lives down the road, says he heard gunshots Thursday night but none Friday.

The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said Campbell called authorities Friday morning to report that he had shot four people at a home near Belfair, southwest of Seattle.

It is thought that the woman had two teenage sons who were adopted from Russian Federation during a previous marriage and a daughter who was adopted from China.

She said Campbell and Carlson were married. She was a family member of the suspect, Spurling said.

A gunman shot and killed four people in a home in rural western Washington state on Friday before shooting himself, authorities in the Mason County confirmed. The Policeman who answered the call, took another officer to the caller’s home but he refused to let them in and refused to leave the house. For 3½ hours, a deputy sergeant tried to persuade the man to surrender, but he finally walked outside and shot himself, the sheriffs office said.

The SWAT team went in around 12:30 p.m., Spurling said. Once he was told only one child was still alive, he asked, “All the rest of them are dead?”

The sheriff’s office said it would not release the address until the scene is secure and is asking people to stay out of the area. They found the deceased suspect inside a different structure in another area on the property, local broadcaster KING5 reported.

The man did not fire at law-enforcement officers, according to Salisbury. Authorities hope she will be able to reveal some details about what took place.

A man inside the home called 911 on Friday morning to say he had shot people.

Associated Press writers Martha Bellisle in Seattle and Manuel Valdes in Belfair contributed. A Washington State Patrol detective is seen through trees as he works the scene of a fatal shooting Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, near Belfair, Wash.