LACEY — Three people are dead and another is recovering from a gunshot wound following an early morning shooting in Washington state, authorities said Wednesday.
Chief Deputy Dave Pearsall with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said that a 911 call was received at 5:17 a.m. Wednesday from a man who said that he had been shot, his friends were dead and that he didn’t know where he was.
Dispatch was able to use the caller’s cellphone to find a general location of where he was — on a property in Thurston County on the east side of Lacey, just north of the state capital of Olympia.
“We found him collapsed on the driveway,” Pearsall said.
Pearsall said that the man had a gunshot wound to the chest and was transported to the hospital, where he was in stable condition after undergoing surgery.
The bodies of two men and a woman were found inside a travel trailer behind a residence, and they all appeared to have died from gunshot wounds, Pearsall said. Their identities have not yet been released.
A this point, authorities don’t have a suspect or motive, and they don’t know the relationship between the caller and those in the trailer, Pearsall said.
Investigators at the scene were observed going in and out of the trailer and walking around the property. Authorities are working on search warrants to follow up on leads as they work to establish a suspect, he said. When asked if any of the wounds may have been self-inflicted, Pearsall said it was too early to tell. He said that he hopes to have more details soon as they get information from the search warrants.
“We’re just asking the public if they see anything suspicious or hear anything suspicious that they immediately give us a call,” he said.
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