COVINGTON – A 34-year-old man who died Monday in a fatal traffic accident that blocked traffic for hours on state Highway 18 shared a home with a woman found dead in a residence in this southeast King County community, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Authorities weren’t sure which death came first and how – or whether – they might be connected.
The victims were not immediately identified. The King County medical examiner’s office did not anticipate releasing any information on the deaths or identities before late today, a spokesman said Monday night.
Nearly four hours after the man’s Subaru station wagon crossed the center line of Highway 18 and collided with a tractor-trailer rig and another vehicle, officers were called to the man’s home on a report of a possible suicide.
They found the 33-year-old woman, who had died “a violent death,” sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said. Two children in the home were not injured.
The woman suffered stab wounds, television stations reported.
Her body reportedly was found by a relative around 9:15 a.m. Monday.
The crash that killed the man happened shortly after 5 a.m. just east of the interchange with the Issaquah-Hobart Road. Highway 18 traffic was stopped for more than four hours as the State Patrol investigated.
The Subaru was heading east when it crossed the centerline and hit a big rig traveling west, Trooper Kelly Spangler said. A pickup then drove into smoke from the crash and collided with the Subaru, she said.
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