Speeding car hits pole, killing four sailors
A car traveling at high speed in south Seattle slammed into a power pole Saturday night, killing the four young men in the vehicle and briefly cutting off power to 2,500 nearby homes.
The car, a BMW, was northbound on Rainier Avenue South and traveling “at what we believe to be excessive rates of speed,” said police spokesman Officer Sean Whitcomb.
The victims had not been identified, but all were sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln docked at the Bremerton shipyards, according to Rick Huling, public affairs officer for Naval Station Everett.
The crash severed the power pole, causing live wires to go down, Whitcomb said.
– Associated Press
Driver, 22, killed in early morning crash
A 22-year-old man was killed in an early morning crash Sunday in Whitman County.
Francisco L. Gonzalez was westbound on Lancaster Road just before 4:30 a.m. when his car left the road, striking a guardrail and a railroad crossing sign, according to the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office. Gonzalez, a Whitman County resident, was ejected from the car and pronounced dead at the scene.
Gonzalez wasn’t wearing a seat belt, according to a press release.
- Taryn Brodwater
Yakima
FAA receives calls of apparent meteor
Several people reported seeing a meteor streak through the sky Sunday night over Yakima.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike O’Connor said he received about eight calls about it, but no reports of any aircraft in trouble.
A dispatcher with the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office said one woman and an area police officer spotted a bright object shooting across the sky.
“It was just like a big bright light, and it had a tail on it – kind of like a comet, but not real long,” Mary Cline, 63, told the Associated Press.
– Associated Press
Vancouver, Wash.
CB radio dispute ends in shooting death
A Vancouver man was shot to death Saturday in the parking lot of Westfield Vancouver mall after an argument over citizens band radio.
Kenneth Eichhorn, 47, died after surgery at Southwest Washington Medical Center, police said Saturday. Jon William Loveless, 44, also of Vancouver, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder.
Police responded about 1:30 a.m. Saturday to reports of multiple shots fired in the mall parking lot. Officers found the wounded Eichhorn in his pickup truck.
Loveless called 911 a short time later, reporting he had been involved in a shooting.
The two men apparently did not know each other but got into an argument over CB radio before they met at the mall. Both men were armed, police said.
– Associated Press