Man who shot himself a fugitive

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A man who shot himself in the head last Thursday in a confrontation with Clark County sheriff’s deputies is a Kennewick fugitive charged with murder in the 2004 slayings of his in-laws, Kennewick police said.

The man, identified as James Moran, 33, was on life support at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Kennewick Sgt. Ken Lattin said. Moran had been charged with first-degree murder in the July 9, 2004, shooting deaths of his wife’s parents, Glenn Dale Carr, 57, and Debra Jolene Carr, 50, in Kennewick.

He has been listed on the America’s Most Wanted Web site.

Clark County officers found the man later identified as Moran when they responded to a report of two possible kidnap victims – a man and a woman – along with a third man – in a red BMW at a fast-food restaurant here, sheriff’s Sgt. Melanie Kenoyer said.

When deputies arrived, the car sped away, she said, leaving one of the possible victims.

When the car made a U-turn at the end of a nearby road, another person “rolled out and ran away,” Kenoyer added.

With only the male driver inside, the car continued toward Interstate 5, but hit one of the deputies’ cars and spun out of control, coming to rest on a northbound I-5 onramp. Deputies were ordering the driver out when he turned a gun on himself, Kenoyer said.