Limo driver dies after shooting

SEATTLE — A man died yesterday after being shot in a limousine he was driving in West Seattle's High Point area.

Police received reports at 4:15 p.m. of several shots fired at 34th Avenue Southwest and Southwest Morgan Street. They found a wounded man in the driver's seat of a white limo pulled over to the curb.

The man, in his 20s or 30s, died later at Harborview Medical Center.

Police think the man had been in an argument earlier with one or two people and that all those involved knew each other. Detectives from the homicide and gang units said they were looking for a white van with a roof rack.

Quake shakes Klamath Falls after temblor rattles seafloor

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A moderate earthquake rattled southern Oregon yesterday, several hours after a temblor shook the seafloor about 140 miles off Oregon. A 4.3-magnitude quake hit the Klamath Falls area, with the epicenter about six miles west of the city, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.

Seismologists described the quake, which registered at 10:54 a.m., as a "shallow crustal earthquake."

Shortly after 7 a.m., a 5.4-magnitude quake shook the seafloor off Coos Bay.

The tremor was centered about 6.2 miles beneath the earth's surface, according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.

Newborn found dead in closet of Kent home

KENT — Police are investigating the death of a newborn found wrapped in garbage bags in the closet of an East Hill home.

According to a news release, medics were called Sunday afternoon to help a 21-year-old woman who was bleeding profusely. At Valley Medical Center, doctors discovered that she had given birth two or more days earlier and had a severe infection.

Police then went to her house and discovered a full-term deceased baby in a bedroom closet.

Bicyclist, 45, fatally hit by car near Snohomish

SNOHOMISH — A 45-year-old bicycle rider died Tuesday when he was hit by a car in the 13200 block of Old Snohomish-Monroe Road.

A 17-year-old Snohomish boy was driving east on the road at about 10:40 p.m. when he struck the bicyclist. The man died at the scene. Investigators believe speed was a factor in the collision; prosecutors will determine this week whether to file charges.

The driver and a 15-year-old passenger, who lives in Monroe, were not injured. The victim's identity was being withheld pending notification of family members.

Man sentenced to 16 years in feud-related killing

EVERETT — A neighborhood feud that escalated into a fatal shooting shows the peril of readily available firearms, a judge said yesterday as he sentenced the killer to 16 years in prison.

Kenneth Charles Jensen also was barred by Snohomish County Superior Court Judge George N. Bowden from ever returning to Granite Falls, where the killing occurred. The small town was polarized by the shooting, judging by the four dozen letters the court received in support of a prison term, Bowden said.

The judge noted that Jensen, 58, was widely known around Granite Falls to carry a loaded .357 Magnum pistol in a leather pouch, and that was the gun he used to shoot neighbor Martin Frank, 40, in the chest.

“It underscores the danger of an armed society,” Bowden said.

Jensen was convicted April 17 of second-degree murder after his first trial ended in a deadlocked jury in December. He maintained the killing was self-defense.

The two men had quarreled for years. Martin was angry about the development of a large house next to his and Jensen was a friend of the developers.

Cantaloupe recalled after salmonella poisoning

OLYMPIA — More than 100,000 pounds of cantaloupe shipped to the Northwest were recalled earlier this week after reports of at least 10 cases of salmonella poisoning in Washington.

The cantaloupe was imported from Mexico by Texas company I. Kunik and sold in stores and restaurants across the country and Canada. Salmonella cases have also been reported in British Columbia, California, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon and Texas.

There were three cases in King County, and others were reported in Cowlitz, Snohomish and Klickitat counties, said state Department of Health spokesman Donn Moyer.

Police seek public's help in finding missing man, 87

SEATTLE — Seattle police are requesting the public's help in locating a 87-year-old disoriented man who was seen last April 9.

James L. Meyers is white, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. When last seen in downtown Seattle he was wearing a three-fourths-length sheepskin coat, a brown velour shirt and white slip-on shoes. He was driving a 2001 red Chrysler 300M with Washington license 154MAS.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or Detective Tina Drain at 206-684-5582.

Teen killed by train at Fort Lewis is identified

FORT LEWIS — The teenager who was killed Tuesday afternoon when he was struck by a train at Fort Lewis has been identified as Jonathan Hedland, 16 of Lakewood, Pierce County.

The county Medical Examiner's Office said Hedland was walking along the tracks with his brother when he was struck about 3:30 p.m.

Washington State Reformatory on lockdown following stabbing

MONROE — The Washington State Reformatory has been locked down all week following the stabbing Sunday of a murder convict in the prison’s exercise yard, officials have revealed.

A 42-year-old Spokane County man was taken initially to Providence Everett Medical Center in Everett after being attacked about 7:45 p.m. Sunday, then was returned to the prison hospital for further treatment, associate superintendent Willie Daigle said yesterday. There was no immediate explanation for the delay in reporting the stabbing.

The man who was stabbed has been at the reformatory since 1984, serving time for first-degree murder and first-degree robbery with potential release dates ranging from 2012 to 2024.

Officials described the weapon as a homemade blade, a “shank” in prison jargon. Monroe police are investigating.

Information is from the Seattle Times staff and news services.