{"id":6997,"date":"2011-06-22T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6997"},"modified":"2011-06-22T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T04:53:43","slug":"breaking-news-napavine-man-fatally-shot-in-head-name-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6997","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Napavine man fatally shot in head; name released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This news story was updated at 7:39 p.m. on Wednesday June 22, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; The coroner&#8217;s office said today the man shot by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy early Monday is 33-year-old Steven V. Petersen, of Napavine.<\/p>\n<p>Petersen died of a penetrating gunshot wound to the head, according to the Lewis County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Petersen was shot during a confrontation with Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Deputy Matt McKnight in Napavine. The sheriff&#8217;s office says Petersen refused to take his hands out of his pockets and then charged McKnight.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies had responded around 2 o&#8217;clock in the morning on Monday to assist Napavine police with a call about an individual with a knife trying to break into an occupied home.<\/p>\n<p>The Lewis County Coroner&#8217;s Office today said they positively identified the dead man through fingerprints. Chief Deputy Coroner Dawn Harris said they did it that way because his next-of-kin, his father, lives out of state; in Missouri, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Petersen&#8217;s wife just died a few weeks ago, Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>His autopsy was completed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner&#8217;s office would not reveal the number of gunshot wounds they found.<\/p>\n<p>The manner of death is homicide, meaning the killing of one human being by another, according to the coroner&#8217;s office. Whether it is found to be justifiable something for other agencies to decide, Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod said.<\/p>\n<p>A team of outside law enforcement officers is investigating the shooting. McKnight, 27, remains on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read Monday&#8217;s news story <a title=\"&quot;Breaking news: Deputy shoots, kills burglary suspect in Napavine&quot; from Monday June 20, 2011 at 4:41 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6929\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news story was updated at 7:39 p.m. on Wednesday June 22, 2011 By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; The coroner&#8217;s office said today the man shot by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy early Monday is 33-year-old Steven V. Petersen, of Napavine. Petersen died of a penetrating gunshot wound to the head, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}