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By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Five people were taken to Providence Centralia Hospital and one person airlifted after a multiple-vehicle collision on U. S. Highway 12 east of Ethel yesterday evening.

The state patrol describes it as a westbound car being knocked onto the shoulder upside down after it was struck by one of three cars involved in a rear end collision in the opposite lane.

It happened just before 6:30 p.m. about a mile east of Leonard Road.

Lewis County Fire District 8 was joined by ambulances from Onalaska and Lewis County Medic One in treating patients in the accident that shut down the highway for more than an hour, according to District 8 Chief Dave DeBuhr.

The driver of a Nissan Altima, a 21-year-old Vancouver man, was hurt the worst. Sergey P. Kaminskiy was in the car hit by a 1993 Honda Accord and coming to rest on it’s top, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life, DeBuhr said.

“We cut off a door, he was caught in a seatbelt upside down,” the chief said.

An air ambulance landed on a small airfield off Leonard and Gore roads and flew Kaminskiy to Southwest Washington Medical Center, according to responders.

DeBuhr said he got a call from Lifeflight last night and the patient was doing good, not critical and possibly had a broken wrist.

His passenger in the totaled Altima, Dennis V. Belinski, 19, of Portland, got a cut on his nose and has been transferred out of Providence, according to authorities.

The state patrol reported all of the victims were wearing seat belts. The cause is still under investigation.

Trooper Brian Dorsey offered the following about the collision:

A pair of teenagers were in the 1993 Honda Accord that veered into the oncoming lane after it rear-ended a Buick Century. Ryan J. Succo, 19, Centralia, was taken to Providence with injuries to his clavicle and nose. Grace M. Succo, 15, Onalaska, was also taken there with back pain. The Accord was totaled.

Two people in the Buick were taken to Providence with back pain. They are driver Jose M. Barron, 37, Centralia, and passenger Orbelin Sanchez-Pimentel, 24, of Orando.

Not injured was a Mossyrock woman driving a 2005 Honda Accord.

Its driver, Pamela Sheldon-Goodrum, 56, of Mossyrock, was eastbound and slowed for a motorist ahead that was turning into a private driveway, according to Dorsey.

The Buick behind her slowed and stopped but was struck in the rear by Succo’s Honda, which shoved the Buick into Sheldon-Goodrum’s Honda.

Chief DeBuhr said he was the last of the emergency responders to leave the scene at 8 p.m. Training pays off, he said.

“The total outcome was excellent, everything went like a text book recovery,” he said. “We got ’em out, and when nobody dies, that’s good.”

Sheriff's detectives search the shooting suspect's trailer and van in the Frost Road Trailer Park

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

WINLOCK – A woman was shot dead this morning in a trailer park in Winlock and a 65-year-old man is in custody.

Sheriff’s deputies and aid were called just before 11 a.m. to the scene on the 700 block of Frost Road, just east of Interstate 5.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

“There was a dispute between the two outside,” Chief Criminal Deputy Gene Seiber said this afternoon. “There was no relationship between the two, other than they lived in the same park.”

An arriving deputy found the 66-year-old woman dead on a gravel roadway near the mailboxes and an office-laundry  building in the middle of the park, according to Seiber. The victim and the suspect live on opposite sides of the mobile home park.

Seiber said she was shot once with a small caliber handgun.

Both the suspect, Richard J. Roth, and another individual called 911, Seiber said. When deputies arrived, Roth was at his home, a small home-made trailer. He was cooperative, according to Seiber.

“He talked to our deputies and detectives freely,” he said.

The woman lived alone, according to Seiber. Her name won’t be released until her family is notified.

The Frost Road Trailer Park sits amid towering Douglas Fir trees and its 32 spaces hold camp trailers, fifth-wheels, mobile homes and a house.

The park owner, who didn’t give her name, said the victim has resided there more than 12 years and Roth moved in three or four months ago. Seiber said Roth is from Oregon.

This afternoon, detectives searched through Roth’s trailer and van looking for the handgun, while neighbors conferred with one another or walked small dogs through the area.

Seiber said once they were finished they would be looking for answers about what transpired and why.

“What the dispute was about, what was the history between the two,” Seiber said.

He didn’t yet know the specific offense Roth would be booked on. The Lewis County Jail log late this afternoon shows he was booked for first-degree murder.

Lewis County sheriff's detectives search the shooting suspect's van in the Frost Road Trailer Park