Coroner IDs Washington gunman and 3 of 4 victims
On Friday morning, Campbell called a police officer he previously knew and reported that he had shot his family.
A 12-year-old girl escaped the incident, according to deputies, leaving the scene on Friday in an ambulance. A town of around 3,900 about 25 miles west of Seattle.
They tried to negotaite with the shooter for about 3 hours, then gave up and called the SWAT team who burts into the home and found bodies littered all over the home.
Neither the gunman nor his four victims have been identified.
A neighbor said she had heard gunshots Thursday night coming from the area, but added that she often hears gunshots in the area. He also said that the husband had recently been hospitalized and was on a lot of medications. She also had a daughter who was adopted from China.
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A Mason County SWAT team is responding to a 911 call about four people shot in the Belfair area.
Campbell “apparently came outside the home and shot himself”, Sheriff Casey Salisbury said. Police have not identified the shooter or victims.
Authorities released the names Saturday of three of the four people found dead on a rural property near Belfair, along with the name of the man believed to have shot them before shooting himself in front of deputies Friday afternoon.
The violence appeared to be a “family-domestic situation”, a Mason County Sheriff’s official said.
Police vehicles line the road near a rural property near Belfair, Washington, February 26, 2016 in this handout photo provided by Mason County Sheriff’s Office in Shelton, Washington.
He thought it was target shooting, he said. Officers have 11 buildings to clear on the property and Spurling could not confirm whether anyone had been shot or killed.
It was not explained how the suspect knew the sergeant’s phone number, but sheriff’s Deputy Chief Ryan Spurling said “the gunman did have a previous contact with the sergeant”. Peebles said she was a friend of the people involved in the shooting.
“That’s when they set up a perimeter, not allowing the individual to go to other residences or endanger other people and called in reinforcements”, Spurling said.