{"id":3742,"date":"2010-12-10T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2010-12-10T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T00:10:55","slug":"news-brief-randle-homicide-case-sent-to-prosecutors-for-potential-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Randle homicide case sent to prosecutors for potential charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; The sheriff&#8217;s office has referred a March homicide case to the Lewis County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, recommending a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 58-year-old Guy LaFontaine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3747\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010.1210.guylafontaine.mug_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3747\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3747\" title=\"Guy LaFontaine\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010.1210.guylafontaine.mug_2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.1210.guylafontaine.mug_2\" width=\"170\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guy LaFontaine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LaFontaine died from injuries following an assault the 11,000 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Randle, according to the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A relative, Erik R. Massa, 43, of Randle, was initially arrested and booked for second-degree murder, but was released pending further investigation. Sheriff&#8217;s Cmdr. Steve Aust said detectives are now requesting Massa be charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>LaFontaine, who lived in Federal Way, had been taken to a hospital closer to his home where he died March 13. He worked at Todd Shipyards in Seattle as a welder.<\/p>\n<p>Aust said the sheriff&#8217;s office investigation was completed and yesterday sent to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>They had been waiting for reports from the Washington State Crime Lab, according to Aust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; The sheriff&#8217;s office has referred a March homicide case to the Lewis County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, recommending a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 58-year-old Guy LaFontaine. LaFontaine died from injuries following an assault the 11,000 block of U.S. Highway 12 in Randle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}