{"id":5739,"date":"2011-04-05T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2011-04-07T20:02:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:02:44","slug":"news-brief-two-dead-following-police-chase-down-i-5-in-thurston-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5739","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Two dead following police chase down I-5 in Thurston County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Update 2:25 p.m.: The Olympian and <a title=\"The (Tacoma) News Tribune\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The (Tacoma) News Tribune<\/a> are reporting a child has been found dead inside a Spanaway-area home connected with this couple.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A high-speed pursuit ended on southbound Interstate 5 in Tumwater this morning with the driver shooting himself in the head and a dead female passenger who didn&#8217;t appear to have died from the low-speed crash or any gunshot, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible the 38-year-old man was traveling with a deceased woman in his car, according to Trooper Guy Gill. But the investigation is still in its preliminary stages, according to Gill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of what ifs here, and it will take time to look at the big picture,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both the 38-year-old male and the 38-year-old female were pronounced dead at the scene, near milepost 101 and Tumwater Boulevard, according to the state patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Their identities have not been released and investigators are not certain yet where they are from. The pair were inside a silver Ford Focus.<\/p>\n<p>It began just before 6 a.m. near the Thurston-Pierce county line when a trooper was passed by a speeding car, traveling about 85 mph, according to the state patrol. The chase continued south, even after spike strips near milepost 109 flattened two of the tires, Trooper Gill reported.<\/p>\n<p>The car slowed to about 30 mph and then it collided with an inside concrete barrier near milepost 101, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper saw the male driver raise his hand by his head, heard a gunshot and saw the driver slump down.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers then found the woman in the front passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>Gill said he expected to share more details as they are learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 2:25 p.m.: The Olympian and The (Tacoma) News Tribune are reporting a child has been found dead inside a Spanaway-area home connected with this couple. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A high-speed pursuit ended on southbound Interstate 5 in Tumwater this morning with the driver shooting himself in the head [&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-5739","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\/5739","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=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}