BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — All available officers searched early today for the person who shot and killed a Washington State Patrol trooper during a traffic stop about 20 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound.
The trooper had stopped a pickup around 1 a.m. today on Highway 16 near Gorst and radioed the location and license plate number, said Trooper Russ Winger.
When the trooper didn’t respond to status checks, a Kitsap County sheriff ’s deputy went to the scene and found the wounded trooper. He was taken St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma where he was declared dead.
A few hours later, officers found the truck abandoned on a county road about two miles from the shooting scene.
Troopers, deputies and other officers searched the area for the driver using dogs and checking residences.
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