Detectives, deputies and Chehalis police patrol vehicles gather at the north end of Highway 603 near Chehalis this morning.
Updated at 2:31 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Deputies are congregating around Highway 603 at state Route 6 west of Chehalis after an incident outside the 76 gas station there.
“I heard a ‘bang’,” clerk Chelsea Hamilton said.
Her co-worker said he walked outside when someone hollered for him to call 911 around 10:15 a.m.
Pete Holmstedt saw a small gray car like a Kia trying to get out of the ditch, and heard a lot of yelling before a gray Jeep sped south down Highway 603, he said.
Holmstedt said he didn’t see which way the small car went.
Lewis County Sheriff’s Office detective Bruce Kimsey said he was still trying to piece together what occurred. The call was for a dispute, Kimsey said.
Deputies were initially called about shots fired, but have no victim, according to a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office.
Witnesses have said they saw someone throw a gun, and also saw someone flee on foot, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
A K-9 was brought out to conduct a track.
A guy who appeared to be hiding has been spotted by the river, Brown said about 2:15 p.m.
“There’s somebody running from us, we don’t know if it’s a suspect or a victim,” she said. Or possibly even a witness who is scared, she added.
Initial reports are that three vehicles were involved. Brown said a trooper and deputies stopped a gray Jeep Cherokee on state Route 6 at milepost 38, but the two men and one woman said they were not involved.
They said a shot was fired and they left to go home to South Bend, Brown said. The three were briefly detained and then let go, she said
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