Northwesterners in the news

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Two high school wrestling coaches were found shot dead, and the body of a teenager who was last seen alive with one of them has also been found.

The East Oregonian reports Kenneth Valdez was killed at his home in Hermiston Thursday morning. Jason Huston, who volunteered alongside Valdez as a wrestling coach at Hermiston High School, was also found dead at the home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. Police have not said whether they believe the deaths to be a result of a murder-suicide.

A 35-year-old woman, not yet identified by police, was also found shot at the scene and was taken to the hospital. She has reportedly given police a “detailed statement.”

Police aren’t searching for other suspects.

Fourteen-year-old James “JJ” Hurtado was found dead in a remote area outside of the town Thursday night. He has been missing since Thursday morning, when police say Huston picked him up to play disc golf.

Police say the teen was “related to one of the parties involved.”




http://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-jj-hurtado-missing-found-dead-oregon-wrestling-coaches-fatally-shot/

 

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Daniel Rowe was apparently enraged at the sight of a black man and a white woman kissing on the streets of Olympia, Washington. But police say he hid his violent intent behind a stony face until he was close enough to strike.

The attack happened about 8:30 p.m. in the state’s capital city on Fourth Avenue, a classic downtown street busy with people going to a local movie theater or visiting bars and restaurants.

Rowe had recently been released from Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla.

Rowe, 32, walked up to the couple and, without warning, yelled a racial slur and lunged with his knife, police say. The blade grazed the woman and went into the man’s hip, according to a news release from Olympia police.

“The suspect is unknown to the victims and the attack appears to have been unprovoked,” police said in the statement.

Police said Rowe’s behavior grew stranger as officers tried to wrestle him into the back of a patrol car.

Lt. Paul Lower, a police department spokesman. said, “He tells them, ‘Yeah, I stabbed them. I’m a white supremacist.'” “He begins talking about Donald Trump rallies and attacking people at the Black Lives Matter protest.”

Rowe has tattoos that read “skinhead,” “white power” and “hooligan.” One tattoo showed the Confederate flag.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/19/white-supremacist-stabs-interracial-couple-after-seeing-them-kiss-at-bar-police-say/?utm_term=.bec98ff86234

 

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A 24-year-old man was killed Thursday in a shooting in Federal Way.

Officers were called to an apartment complex in the 2500 block of South 286th Place at 2:14 p.m. and found a man with gunshot wounds, police said. First-responders began treating the man, but he died from his wounds.

Police are searching for two men: a man in his 20s with a thin build, who was wearing a gray shirt and jeans. And a second man in his 20s, who is 5 feet 10 with a thin build. Witnesses reported seeing a white Chevrolet Malibu leaving the area.

Police say the victim lived at the residence where the shooting occurred. They do not believe the killing was random.


http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/1-dead-in-federal-way-shooting/

 

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A Mountlake Terrace man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing and possessing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes says 51-year-old David Stephens pleaded guilty in April and was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Friday.

Hayes says that federal authorities searched Stephens’ home and seized electronic devices with thousands of images of child rape and abuse. Hayes says some of the images were photos Stephens produced while he molested a young child.

Under the sentence, he’ll have to register as a sex offender and undergo treatment while he’s in custody.




http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/mountlake-terrace-man-gets-15-years-in-child-porn-case/