Five dead including suspect after Washington state shooting

Four people were killed by a gunman on Friday in a rural Washington home, before he shot himself dead following an hours-long standoff with the police.

The ordeal began Friday morning in the city of Belfair when the gunman called a Mason County deputy saying he had “shot some people and had a gun to his head”, Spurling said. The man walked outside the residence and shot himself after a 3 ½ hour stand-off with authorities from multiple police agencies.

The man called law enforcement Friday morning, but at least one neighbor reports hearing shots on Thursday night.

A SWAT team, deputies and police responded to the property, which is on Northeast Horseshoe Drive, a dirt- and stone-packed road in a rural, wooded area northwest of Belfair, southwest of Bremerton.

Mason County Sheriff’s Chief Criminal Deputy Russ Osterhout looks down a road near the scene of a fatal shooting Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, near Belfair, Wash.

Four victims confirmed and the suspect is deceased. “They had went to the public schools, everything was all right as far as I knew”, he said.

They said she will be taken in by Child Protective Services, until family members can be notified.

Pigott says the couple who lived in the house had been married for four to five years. The girl had been adopted from China when she was a baby, and two older boys had been adopted from Russian Federation, he said.

Spurling said the young survivor was taken into custody by Child Protection Services, and that family members have reached out. She is reportedly his “relative”, but officials couldn’t confirm if she was Campbell’s daughter.

The neighbor also said Campbell had recently been hospitalized, but he didn’t know why. When he returned home, he was on a lot of medications, Pigott said of the man.

The armed man called 911 and reported the shooting, authorities said.