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Everett murder-suicide left thousands of commuters stuck on I-5

EVERETT—Everett Police Detectives are now investigating a murder-suicide that occurred Sunday afternoon that left two men dead and led to a short pursuit on I-5.

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WSDOT traffic cam of traffic backup from Sunday’s murder-suicide in Everett. SOURCE: WSDOT.

At approximately 1:05 p.m., September 22, Everett Police officers were dispatched to a report of shots fired at the Park View Apartments located on the 1100 block of W. Casino Road. When officers arrived, they located two victims—one deceased male and one female with non-life-threatening injuries. The female was transported to the hospital. 

Sources told FOX13 that the decease male was the boyfriend of, and the suspect was the ex-boyfriend of the injured female.

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The suspect vehicle on I-5 after the driver allegedly killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. SOURCE: Everett Police.

Witnesses identified the suspect and his vehicle and informed officers that he had fled. By 1:40 p.m., officers had located the suspect vehicle and began pursuit near 19th Ave. SE and El Capitan Way, following the suspect onto I-5 North. 

After a short pursuit, the suspect vehicle crashed, near milepost 190 on I-5. Initial indications show that uninvolved vehicles were involved in the crash.

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Aerial view of traffic backup from Sunday’s murder-suicide in Everett. SOURCE: WSDOT.

Shortly after, officers heard gunshots coming from the suspect vehicle. Officers were eventually able to safely approach and determined that the suspect was deceased with what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No shots were fired by law enforcement. 

I-5 Northbound and Southbound were closed initially and I-5 South re-opened shortly after. I-5 North had partial lane closures as officers investigated. The lane closures resulted in a three-mile backup on I-5 Northbound. All lanes reopened at about 9 p.m., Sunday evening.

7 Responses

  1. This is so insane! Mental health is such a major problem. Something has to be done. The many lives affected by this type of situation is sad to think about.

  2. We need to unite with the for thought of Love, that feeling of unconditional -im here and no matter what we us together build define faith hope ” UNCONDITIONAL UNDERSTANDING AND IM LISTENING!

    1. That was years ago. Looks at the damage that the plan demic did to this country and mental health issues are100 x’s worse then back then. Republicans are not to be blamed

  3. Some things happen that can’t be explained or have a clear reason. It’s a pretty devastating situation. Let’s not use other reasons outside of this to carry out why we think it happened. This is all f’d up and sad, what happened.

  4. According to the Definitive Healthcare platform, there are 820 active psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. as of March 2023.
    Get the whole story straight before blaming a single deceased president.
    (That was California as gov)
    The real crimes are happening now with hundreds of thousands of criminals let into this country causing thefts, lifelong physical, mental, and death to thousands of our citizens and inept active leaders are playing the blame game with the help of the far left media.
    Wake up America – We can’t afford 4 more of ongoing carnage, and special interest financial inflation causing waste!
    Obama said pre presidential “it is unamerican to raise the deficit”!!!
    Then proceeded to double it in 2 terms…
    We need patriots leading this country, not procrastinators that records show did nothing to protect America from debt, and foreign invaders to mention a few deficiencies.

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