SALKUM, Wash. (AP) — The Lewis County Coroner’s Office has released the names of three men killed Saturday in a triple homicide in rural Salkum.
Killed were 52-year-old David J. West, Sr. and his 16-year-old son, David J. West, Jr., both of Salkum, and 50-year-old Tony E. Williams, of Mineral.
Lewis County authorities are searching for the suspected gunman, 31-year-old John Allen Booth Jr. of Onalaska, whom they believe may have been trying to collect on a drug debt.
Sheriff Steve Mansfield said Sunday that Booth is considered armed and extremely dangerous.
After Booth used his cell phone to call a friend around noon Saturday, authorities “pinged” his phone and discovered he was in the Spokane area at the time.
