Collisions kill 9 over weekend
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Two women were killed early Monday morning when the vehicle in which they were riding collided with a car going the wrong way on Interstate 405 in Bellevue, the State Patrol said.
The accident occurred shortly before 3 a.m. when a car driven by Deanna Murphy, 30, of Bellevue, was going north in the southbound lanes of I-405 just south of Highway 520. The car crashed head-on with a another car driven by Kien Lu, 35, of Seattle. Passengers in Lu's car were Katrina Nghe, 35, and Michelle Huang, 26, both of Renton. Nghe died at the scene; Huang died hours later at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Lu also was taken to Harborview, where he was in satisfactory condition this morning. Murphy was transported to Overlake Hospital Medical Center, where she was stabilized and sent to Harborview. She was in serious condition today.
The accident is still under investigation, said the State Patrol.
Three people died late Saturday night when their two vehicles collided on Highway 2 west of Leavenworth.
Travis Marston, 23, of Everett was killed when his eastbound car crossed into the westbound lane and hit the car being driven by Berthold Miller, 62. Miller and his wife, Karen, 57, both of Shoreline, died at the scene. They were both wearing seat belts.
Daishi Murakami, 19, of Tumwater, who was a passenger in Miller's car, was injured and taken to Central Washington Hospital where he was in satisfactory condition this morning, according to a nursing supervisor.
Keith Clayton, 22, died at Harborview Medical Center Saturday night after the car he was riding in collided with another vehicle on Old Clifton Road near Berry Lake in Port Orchard.
Clayton, who was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in Everett, was thrown from a car driven by Kenneth Carpenter, 25, of Port Orchard. Carpenter was in serious condition this morning at Harborview Medical Center.
The car was traveling east about 9:40 p.m. when it crossed into the oncoming lane and collided with a minivan carrying a family of five., including two toddlers.
All five occupants of the minivan were wearing seat belts or using infant seats and none apparently required hospitalization.
Authorities drew blood from Carpenter and sent it to the Washington State Toxicology Lab for analysis, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.
In an accident earlier Saturday, two women and a 5-month-old child died near Fife, when a sport-utility vehicle crossed the center line and smashed head-on into another car.
Missing police dog found in forest near Mt. Rainier
GREENWATER - A police dog missing for nearly a week was found last night in a rugged forested area near Mount Rainier.
Ferro, a German shepherd, was cold and wet but otherwise OK, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said. A vet check last night showed Ferro had lost 22 pounds and had some cuts and scrapes.
A Greenwater firefighter who went out to search for the dog found Ferro near the spot where he set out to chase two men who crashed a stolen car last Tuesday night, KING-TV reported.
Ferro's handler, Deputy John Reding, lost sight of the dog while deputies helped Enumclaw police chase the suspected car thieves. One man was caught.
Seattle man, 25, arrested in fatal shooting in Bremerton
BREMERTON - Kitsap County sheriff's detectives obtained a warrant yesterday to search a home in Bremerton where Stephen Jeffrey Ross, 35, was fatally shot in what police said appeared to have been a drug-related killing.
Arrested and booked into the Kitsap County Jail for investigation of murder was a 25-year-old Seattle man, who had been staying at the home temporarily, according to Mike Davis, chief of detectives.
Deputies responded to reports of gunshots about 8:30 p.m. Sunday at a home in East Bremerton, Davis said. In addition to Ross and the man who was arrested, four adults were in the home, including Matthew (Scott) Nesseth, 31, and Kimberly Dudley, also 31. Nesseth and Dudley each went to investigate the gunshots separately, and each was shot, Davis said.
A nursing supervisor at Harrison Memorial Hospital yesterday said Nesseth was in satisfactory condition with a gunshot to the abdomen and Dudley had been released.
Information is from Seattle Times staff and news services.