KENT – A 24-year-old man who placed a lava lamp on a hot stovetop was killed when it exploded and sent a shard of glass into his heart, police said.
“Why on Earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we don’t know,” Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said Monday.
Phillip Quinn’s parents found his body in his Kent trailer home at about 8 p.m. Sunday. They went to check on him after his girlfriend reported that she couldn’t get in touch with him.
The King County Medical Examiner’s office estimated the time of his death at 2 p.m. Sunday.
After the lamp exploded, Quinn apparently stumbled into his bedroom, where he died, Petersen said.
Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use.
Associated Press
Seattle: Man stabbed to death near stadiums
A man who was first thought to have been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver near the Mariners and Seahawks stadiums had been stabbed, authorities said. Abdul Hussein, 27, of Seattle, died of a stab wound in the neck, investigators in the King County Medical Examiner’s Office said Saturday. The body was spotted early Friday by a passing motorist who thought Hussein had been hit by a car, but police and fire department medics found a neck injury, police officer Sean Whitcomb said. No arrests were reported through the weekend, and Whitcomb said police were trying to determine a motive.
Associated Press
Tacoma: Paintball drive-by damages house
A drive-by shooting of a different sort damaged a house in Tacoma on Saturday, police said. Someone fired 13 paintballs at a home in the 500 block of S. 48th Street, witnesses said. Most of the balls exploded harmlessly on windows, but at least two punctured the house’s siding, police reported. No one was hurt. A witness told officers he saw a dark gray Nissan Stanza drive past the house about 10:30 a.m. A passenger in the car was firing paintballs as it sped past the house, the man said. The car later drove by slowly, he said. The house’s resident said he had no clue who might target him. No arrests were reported.
The News Tribune
Aberdeen: Accident cuts communication
Much of Grays Harbor County was without some combination of phone service, Internet, e-mail or cell services Monday morning, and the Ocean Shores area was without 911 service. The problem apparently started when a truck hooked a wire and toppled two poles on U.S. 12 early Monday. Ocean Shores was without 911 service for about nine hours and other areas in the county, including Aberdeen, had to be rerouted to Thurston County’s 911 center. A spokeswoman for Qwest said long distance, Internet and cellphone services shouldn’t have been affected by the problem. She said congestion on local lines must have caused a problem. The county’s 911 service runs on the same fiber-optic circuit as the Internet and some other communications systems.
The Daily World
Bellingham: Clipped line darkens Fairhaven
Lights went out in a portion of south Bellingham on Monday morning after a lift vehicle clipped an overhead power line. The lift driver escaped injury in the 8:30 a.m. incident near the intersection of Harris Avenue and 13th Street, said Bellingham Fire Capt. Robert Gray. The forklift driver apparently did not see a low-hanging power line. The impact on the power line apparently produced a jolt that sent sparks and burning oil falling from an overhead transformer onto an older Chevrolet pickup truck parked beneath it, setting it on fire. The only other obvious casualty was an inflatable plastic Santa Claus in the front yard of a nearby home. It sagged in a heap shortly after the incident, apparently because of the shutdown of an air pump that kept him inflated.
Bellingham Herald
Chelan: Fatal accident blamed on alcohol
A car accident that claimed the lives of a former supermarket owner and an entrepreneur who started a dinner cruise in a boat once owned by the late Dean Martin has been blamed on drinking and speeding. Tests showed Cynthia S. Race, 37, had a blood alcohol level of .18 percent, more than twice the legal limit, at the time of the one-car accident in which she and Gregory M. Goodman, 38, died Nov. 7. Investigators also determined that the Volkswagen Jetta driven by Race was going at least 66 mph when it went off a road and down a ravine. Goodman, former owner of a local boat rental business, outfitted Martin’s former 1956 Chris Craft and began offering dinner cruises on Lake Chelan last summer. Race, former owner of the local Red Apple Market, was an accountant for LaPorte Financial Alliance.
Associated Press
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