VANCOUVER, Wash. – A man who shot himself in the head 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 being kept alive on life support at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore., Kennewick Sgt. Ken Lattin said.

Moran had been charged by warrant 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 on Thursday afternoon 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. It was not immediately clear who placed the call, she said.

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

When the car made a U-turn at the end of a nearby road, another person “rolled out and ran away,” Kenoyer added. “That was apparently one of our alleged kidnap victims.”

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 against a traffic barrier on a northbound I-5 onramp. Deputies were ordering the driver to get out when he turned a gun on himself, Kenoyer said.

Details of the possible abduction, which reportedly began somewhere in Idaho, remained murky late Thursday night.