SEATTLE – A man who allegedly attacked a woman after entering her south Seattle home early Wednesday died after fighting with her son, the King County Sheriff’s Office said.
The woman found the man in her kitchen at about 1 a.m., sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart said. When the man began hitting her with a flashlight, she screamed for her son, who was working in the garage next door, Urquhart said.
The woman’s 27-year-old son tackled the intruder and held him down while his mother called 911. When deputies arrived, they found the suspect dead on the floor. There was no visible cause of death.
Urquhart said charges against the son are unlikely, since it appeared to be a case of self-defense.
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Flight Museum names astronaut as new CEO
The Museum of Flight has named NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar as its new president and CEO.
A native of the rural, south-central Washington town of Outlook, Dunbar has served on five space missions, logging more than 50 days in orbit aboard four space shuttles.
Her most recent spaceflight was aboard Endeavour in January 1998. As payload manager, she was responsible for more than 4 tons of scientific equipment, supplies and water that was delivered to the Russian space station Mir.
She is retiring from the space agency effective Sept. 30.
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Bremerton: Deaths probed at state home
The deaths of two women in their 20s who lived at the Frances Haddon Morgan Center, a state-run home for the severely developmentally disabled, are under investigation, police and state officials said.
Kristina M. Shannon, 29, died July 2 of acute drug intoxication, investigators in the Kitsap County Coroner’s Office concluded. Toxicology tests were pending for Jenny A. Jessup, 27, but her death on Sept. 4 apparently was from natural causes, detective Sue Shultz said.
Jeff Weathersby, a spokesman for the Division of Developmental Disabilities, said the state hired an expert to review the two deaths because they were unexpected.
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