Female Officer Killed, Fleeing Suspect Shot By Police - News Story - KIRO Seattle
SEQUIM, Wash. -- Police shot and killed a man Saturday night that they say was a suspect in the shooting death of a female police officer earlier in the day.
The Clallam County Sheriff's Department confirmed that Shawn Roe, a 36-year-old man from Sequim was killed by police as he left a convenience store near the Seven Cedars Casino sometime after 9 p.m.
Roe died when he allegedly pulled a gun on police and police opened fire.
Roe's killing happened as the Washington State Patrol and other police agencies were investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Forest Service officer on a road near this town in Clallam County.
Late in the day, the patrol identified the dead officer as Kris Fairbanks, a 51-year-old woman from Forks.
According the the Forest Service website, Fairbanks was a certified K-9 officer.
State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom said that at about 2:40 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Faribanks observed a van on a forest road near Sequim.
The van did not have license plates. Fairbanks made contact with the occupant of the van and radioed back some information to her headquarters.
When the headquarters tried to call the officer back there was no response.
Clallam County Sheriffs deputies and the State Patrol responded to the scene where the officer made the stop and found her dead.
The area is known as Forest Road 2880 which is off Palo Alto Road.
Officer Fairbanks was the second female officer to be shot to death while on duty in less than a month in Western Washington. Skagit County Deputy Anne Jackson was shot and killed during a shooting rampage September 2 in the town of Alger.
SEQUIM, Wash. -- Police shot and killed a man Saturday night that they say was a suspect in the shooting death of a female police officer earlier in the day.
The Clallam County Sheriff's Department confirmed that Shawn Roe, a 36-year-old man from Sequim was killed by police as he left a convenience store near the Seven Cedars Casino sometime after 9 p.m.
Roe died when he allegedly pulled a gun on police and police opened fire.
Roe's killing happened as the Washington State Patrol and other police agencies were investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Forest Service officer on a road near this town in Clallam County.
Late in the day, the patrol identified the dead officer as Kris Fairbanks, a 51-year-old woman from Forks.
According the the Forest Service website, Fairbanks was a certified K-9 officer.
State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom said that at about 2:40 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Faribanks observed a van on a forest road near Sequim.
The van did not have license plates. Fairbanks made contact with the occupant of the van and radioed back some information to her headquarters.
When the headquarters tried to call the officer back there was no response.
Clallam County Sheriffs deputies and the State Patrol responded to the scene where the officer made the stop and found her dead.
The area is known as Forest Road 2880 which is off Palo Alto Road.
Officer Fairbanks was the second female officer to be shot to death while on duty in less than a month in Western Washington. Skagit County Deputy Anne Jackson was shot and killed during a shooting rampage September 2 in the town of Alger.