SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash – Crime scene tape still surrounds a house where three people died and two Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputies were critically injured Tuesday afternoon.
The house on Smythe Road is in southwest Spokane County, north of the town of Spangle. The house sits about a half mile off Highway 195 and was the scene of a chaotic shooting.
Deputies first came to the home around 3 pm when a woman called from a neighbor’s house and said her brother shot her. Deputies arrived and found one woman dead outside, but could not find the gunman.
When they tried to breach the door, they were met with gunfire and two deputies were hit. They were transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center in critical condition. As of Wednesday at noon, deputy vehicles and an honor guard could be seen outside the hospital.
Investigators ultimately found two more people dead in the home, including the shooter.
At the home Wednesday, 4 News Now reporters could see several law enforcement officers and the forensics team. Windows on one side of the house had been shot out.
Sheriff John Nowels said Tuesday night he didn’t have a lot of answers yet about what happened that led up to the shooting.
When reached Wednesday morning, the medical examiner’s office said they had not yet been called to the scene, so none of the names of those killed have been released.
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