A man being questioned over a dispute with a woman allegedly pulled out a gun and shot an officer to death, then pulled out a second gun and wounded another officer as he tried to handcuff the man.
The suspect also was wounded in the confrontation late Wednesday in an alley outside a motel in this north-central Washington town of 4,000.A 45-year-old officer died Thursday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was flown after the shooting, Okanogan County Sheriff Jim Weed said. The other officer was being treated for a leg wound.
The gunman, identified as Juan Gonzales, was in serious condition at Harborview with a gunshot wound to the torso.