YAKIMA -- The Yakima County sheriff's office is investigating the shooting death of a Montana woman in central Washington.
The woman's common-law husband told detectives they were both shot by a hitchhiker they had picked up near a rest stop on Interstate 82 early Wednesday morning. The man was shot in the hand.
The sheriff's office identified the couple in a statement as 40-year-old Sheryl Huntley and 34-year-old Stephen Harwood of Thompson Falls, Mont. Huntley died Wednesday afternoon after suffering a single gunshot to the head.
