In brief: Ohio murder suspect taken into custody
A standoff at a north Spokane home ended with the arrest of a man wanted for murder in Ohio.
Spokane police assisted U.S. Marshals in taking 29-year-old Kevin Harrington into custody at a house on the 1700 block of E. Courtland Monday afternoon.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, a warrant for Harrington was issued last May in connection with the death of Kahlee Beard, 30, on Jan. 21, 2012.
Walla Walla books Mumford & Sons event
Mumford & Sons, the popular British folk pop band, will perform in Walla Walla this summer, bringing the Foo Fighters, the Flaming Lips, Jenny Lewis, the Vaccines, and a couple dozen more national and regional acts along for the ride.
Since 2012, Mumford & Sons has hosted a series of “Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers,” two-night festivals in smaller communities that are off the beaten track. The Walla Walla Stopover is scheduled for Aug. 14-15.
The lineup in Walla Walla also will include Dawes, James Vincent McMorrow, tUnE-yArDs, Blake Mills, and JEFF the Brotherhood. More acts will be announced soon.
Whitman College’s athletic field will host the headlining concerts and Veterans Memorial Golf Course will be closed to accommodate camping for 26,000 people. Tickets are $199 for the two-day festival and will go on sale Friday through the Mumford website. Camping is included in the ticket price.
Shooting suspect appears in court
Ricky Tanner, suspect in a gang-related drive-by shooting, appeared in court for the first time Monday following his arrest in Montana.
Tanner, 23, is suspected in a Jan. 26 shooting in the parking lot of a Hillyard grocery store. At least five people were shot at, according to court documents.
Tanner is a suspected member of the “NFL Squad,” a clique of the Gangster Disciples.
Multiple victims said they were members of the “SUB Squad,” a group of friends that likes to party together but is not a gang.
One of the victims told police he had been involved in a physical fight earlier that day with one of the shooting suspects.
Two teenagers have also been charged in connection with the shooting.
Oso rescuers can receive Medal of Valor
OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill Monday to allow awarding the Medal of Valor to a group of recipients rather than a single person, clearing the way to give one of Washington’s highest honors to several communities for rescue efforts after last year’s deadly Oso mudslide.
On March 18, four days short of the anniversary of the mudslide, Inslee plans to award the medal collectively to Oso, Darrington and Arlington, and the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe, for their responses to the March 2014 mudslide that killed 43 people. Previously, the Medal of Valor could only be given to one recipient for taking action at personal risk to save one or more lives.
“We all know the heartbreak from the landslide in Oso,” Inslee said before he signed the bill. “It was so deep in our state, and now this bill will allow the honoring of many heroic individuals and groups who at great personal peril responded to the tragedy.”