ALGER, Wash. – A shooting rampage Tuesday afternoon in northwest Washington has left six people dead, including a sheriff’s deputy, the State Patrol said. A suspect in the shootings has surrendered.
Two people were wounded during the violence in Skagit County, including a state trooper who reportedly was grazed in the arm by a bullet.
A man was arrested after turning himself in at the Skagit County sheriff’s office in Mount Vernon, Trooper Keith Leary said. The man was not immediately identified but Leary said he is known to authorities as “someone with a mental illness.”
