Suicide
Guitarist Ronnie Montrose's death a suicide, coroner says
LOS ANGELES -- Hard rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 3, according to a report released last Friday by the San Mateo County Coroner's office. Although he was battling prostate cancer, he did not succumb to that illness, as was previously...
Date: 04/11/2012 | Nation & World
Spokane police subdue suicidal armed man
SPOKANE -- Spokane police used a bean bag gun to subdue a suicidal man who advanced toward officers with a knife.Police say the man refused commands Sunday night and advanced toward officers with the knife, telling them to shoot him because he wanted to die.
Date: 03/26/2012 | Northwest
Police: 5 people found dead in San Francisco house
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco medical examiner wheeled out the bodies of five people found dead Friday inside a home after what police said was a possible murder-suicide across the street from a private high school in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Nation & World
Mom of Calif. war vet in murder-suicide found dead
GILROY, Calif. -- The missing mother of an Iraq war veteran who is believed to have killed his family in a murder-suicide was found dead Thursday near a rural Northern California road, police said.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Nation & World
Ex-Rutgers student guilty in webcam suicide case
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's love life was convicted of invasion of privacy and anti-gay intimidation Friday in a case that exploded into the headlines when the victim threw himself to his death off a...
Date: 03/16/2012 | Nation & World
Police investigate possible suicide at Mukilteo's Lighthouse Park
MUKILTEO -- Police on Wednesday were investigating a possible suicide at Lighthouse Park.A passerby spotted a body on the south end of the beach, near a paved walking area, Mukilteo police Officer Cheol Kang said. The passerby called police about 12:30 p.m.
Date: 02/15/2012 | Local News
Could the state have done more to protect Powell boys?
SEATTLE -- State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect the children of a missing Utah woman who were killed along with their father when authorities said he blew up his home Sunday.
Date: 02/05/2012 | Northwest
Did jealously play role in Navy pilots' murder-suicide?
SAN DIEGO — Investigators trying to determine the motive behind a New Year's Day murder-suicide involving two Navy pilots and two other people were looking Thursday at whether jealousy might have played a role.
Date: 01/04/2012 | Nation & World
Record year of suicides at Lewis-McChord base
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD -- Joint Base Lewis-McChord saw more suicides in 2011 than any previous year. Twelve suicides were recorded at the base this past year. That's up from nine in 2010 and nine in 2009, The Tacoma News Tribune reported.
Date: 12/30/2011 | Northwest
3 Indiana deaths believed to be homicides, suicide
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Investigators were trying to determine why a man killed two people before fatally shooting himself in a case that started when a woman thousands of miles away told police they should check on a house in Fort Wayne.
Date: 12/11/2011 | Northwest
Death of skydiver probable suicide
SALT LAKE CITY -- The death of a champion skydiver whose body was found under a cliff outside Moab has been ruled a probable suicide.
Date: 12/06/2011 | Nation & World
Death at Lake Tye in Monroe ruled a suicide
MONROE -- A death at Lake Tye Park in November has been ruled a suicide.A Snohomish-area man, 28, took his own life at the park around 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 23, officials said. It happened near a path on the west side of the lake. There was some police activity in the area during the investigation.
Date: 12/06/2011 | Local News
Grief counselors brought to Snohomish High after student's suicide
SNOHOMISH -- Extra counselors will be at Snohomish High School this week after a 14-year-old student took his own life.Police were called to the boy's home in Snohomish after school Friday, Snohomish Police Chief John Turner said.
Date: 11/21/2011 | Local News
Man fatally stabs self in front of deputies
BATTLE GROUND -- A 50-year-old Battle Ground man fatally stabbed himself in front of Clark County Sheriff's deputies during a restraining order violation call.
Date: 11/12/2011 | Northwest
Couple killed in Lacey shootings ID'd
LACEY -- The Thurston County coroner has identified the couple involved in an apparent homicide-suicide at a home in Lacey.
Date: 11/05/2011 | Northwest
Teacher criticized for Facebook remarks on gays
UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Officials in a New Jersey school district are investigating claims that a high school teacher who advises a prayer group posted remarks on her Facebook page that described homosexuality as "perverted" and said it "breeds like cancer."
Date: 10/13/2011 | Nation & World
Investigators testify in 1998 death review of trooper
CHEHALIS -- A now-retired sheriff's detective who re-investigated the 1998 shooting death of former Washington State Patrol Trooper Ronda Reynolds has told an inquest jury he stands by the conclusion he reached in 2001 -- that she killed herself.
Date: 10/12/2011 | Northwest
Kitsap deputies respond to suicide, dangerous gas
BREMERTON -- A pastor at a church in Bremerton discovered a man's body in a pickup truck Sunday morning, accompanied by a sign warning of poisonous gas.
Date: 10/02/2011 | Northwest
Coroner: Kennewick woman killed son then herself
KENNEWICK -- The Benton County coroner says 56-year-old Ruth Mertz killed her 28-year-old son, Jason, at his apartment Friday in Kennewick and then shot herself in the head.KVEW reported that he died at the scene and she died at a hospital.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Northwest
Man, woman in Spokane murder-suicide had dated
SPOKANE -- The Spokane County sheriff's office says the man and woman killed in a murder-suicide had dated, and the relationship may have played a part in Saturday's shooting at Spokane.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Northwest
2 dead in Spokane after shooting
SPOKANE -- The Spokane County sheriff's office says a 20-year-old woman was shot dead in the living room of a Spokane apartment, and then the presumed shooter shot himself in the adjacent unit.
Date: 09/04/2011 | Northwest
San Francisco police: Gun used by parolee who died recovered
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police said they have recovered the gun a 19-year-old parolee from Washington used when he fatally shot himself during a police pursuit nearly two weeks ago.
Date: 07/30/2011 | Northwest
Goal of Edmonds couple: Raise awareness, prevent suicides
Suicide kills more than 30,000 people in this country every year. That's roughly the same number killed in traffic accidents and comes close to the annual toll for breast cancer.
Date: 07/24/2011 | Local News
Teen who committed suicide had been in 22 foster homes
LYNNWOOD -- A boy who jumped to his death from a Lynnwood overpass in January had been on a waiting list for a bed at a state-run psychiatric hospital. He had been in 22 different foster homes since 1998.
Date: 07/21/2011 | Local News
Granite Falls man charged in possible failed ambush attempt
GRANITE FALLS -- A Granite Falls man was charged Friday with attempted first-degree assault in connection with what police believe was a failed ambush plan last month.
Date: 06/18/2011 | Local News
Jack Kevorkian, 'Dr. Death,' dies at 83
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the notorious advocate of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who became a household name in the 1990s by practicing what he preached and in so doing inflamed the nationwide debate over a patient's right to die, died early Friday. He was 83.
Date: 06/03/2011 | Nation & World
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