MARYSVILLE — A Marysville teen-ager was in critical condition with head injuries Tuesday after being struck by a car in an early morning hit-and-run accident, police said.
City police arrested a 37-year-old woman later that afternoon in connection with the incident.
The victim, a 15-year-old girl in the 10th grade at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, was hit shortly before 7 a.m. while she was in a crosswalk on Armar Road in south Marysville, said Marysville School District spokesman Dave Steelsmith.
She was flown to Harborview Medical Center, where she was in critical condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit, according to a hospital official.
Police did not release the name of either the driver or the victim.
Police made an arrest after an area business said it replaced the windshield of a vehicle matching the description of the one seen leaving the accident scene, according to a Marysville Police Department press release.
Steelsmith said district transportation officials didn’t know of a history of safety problems in the area of the intersection of Armar Road and 67th Street NE.
"She was crossing in a crosswalk and it’s actually one of the better areas in the city. It has curbs and sidewalks," he said.
Langley
Boy hit by car: A 6-year old child was struck by a van and injured just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Island County Sheriff’s Office said.
The boy, identified as Stewart Williams, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He was in satisfactory condition Tuesday night.
The driver was identified as a 62-year-old Langley man. Deputies are investigating, but sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Smith said it appeared the driver was traveling within the speed limit and did all he could to avoid the child, who darted into the road.
She said the boy had been at a bus stop waiting near the intersection of Brooks Hill Road and Bayview Road. The van had been traveling west on Brooks Hill Road at the time of the accident.
The boy suffered head injuries, Smith said.
Edmonds
Search on for missing man: Edmonds police are searching for a 70-year-old man in a wheelchair who disappeared from his adult care home Monday morning.
John Alvin Depew is 5 feet 7 inches tall, 158 pounds, with gray hair, brown eyes and an artificial leg. He was last seen at Washington Mutual Bank in downtown Edmonds at noon on Monday.
He lives at an adult home in the 21600 block of 79th Avenue W. Depew likes to go to the South Snohomish County Senior Center in downtown Edmonds, but has not been seen there in the last two days, police said.
Depew needs to take life-sustaining medicine every day. He was last seen wearing a brown shirt and tie and a brown coat and pants.
Anyone who sees Depew is asked to call 911 immediately so he can receive medical attention.
Oak Harbor
Exotic animals found: Some exotic animals that escaped after a house fire on Benton Place near Oak Harbor have been accounted for, the Island County Sheriff’s Office said.
Two big, flightless birds called emus have been corralled and are safe, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Smith said. A small exotic cat, a serval, which is native to grassland Africa, may have met a less desirable end, Smith said.
Area residents reported to an animal control officer they heard what sounded like a pack of coyotes engaged in a hunt, presumably for the serval.
There was some concern for damage it could do to other pets or humans if cornered. However, there was concern for the serval as well. Servals are grassland animals and not likely to climb trees. Besides, this one was immature, Smith said.
The animals escaped from the burning home early Sunday morning. The occupant of the home kept a variety of animals as pets.
Woodinville
Woman charged after deadly accident: A North Bend woman was charged Tuesday with vehicular homicide after she allegedly fled the scene of a shoplifting and crashed her car, killing her 9-year-old daughter near Woodinville.
Anita Marie Durrett, 42, was driving nearly 80 mph down a winding, hilly two-lane road near Woodinville just before the June 9 accident, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Kathleen Webber said in court papers.
Durrett’s daughter, LaDawna, was in the car and died of head injuries.
The accident occurred on 75th Avenue SE south of 240th Street SE, just inside Snohomish County north of Woodinville.
Durrett had earlier fled from an Albertson’s supermarket in King County, where she was spotted wheeling a cart of groceries to her car. Store employees followed her, at one point blocking her path at a stop sign, according to court papers.
Durrett hit one of the workers as she tried to get away.
Everett
Man shot: A 28-year-old Everett man was in critical condition Tuesday night Monday with multiple gunshot wounds after he was shot through the door of a south Everett apartment.
Everett police arrested a 21-year-old Everett man in connection with the shooting, after a reserve officer saw him leave the scene in a car at around 10:30 p.m., then flee the car on foot, Everett police spokesman Boyd Bryant said. The man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, he said.
Bryant declined to release the names of the suspect or the victim.
The shooting took place in an apartment complex in the 400 block of 85th Place SW, Bryant said. The shooting was still under investigation Tuesday and was believed to be "a dispute over illegal drugs," Bryant said.
Snohomish County
Jail strike looming: More than 60 workers at the Snohomish County Jail are inching closer to a strike after rejecting the latest contract offer from county management.
In a 61-2 vote, support staff such as clerks and nurses represented by Teamsters Local 763 recently turned down the contract. The county’s chief labor organization, the Snohomish County Labor Council, followed with a recommendation that member unions not cross picket lines if the jail workers go on strike.
Changes in health care benefits and the authority given to managers to override the contract’s terms were top reasons why workers rejected the offer, said Dave D’Andrea, business agent for the local.
Susan Neely, an executive director in county executive Bob Drewel’s office, said the county is considering its next step in the negotiations.
Union negotiators and county officials will meet this week to see if they can reach a new agreement, D’Andrea said. If there is no progress, members of the local might then vote to go on strike, he said.
From Herald staff reports
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