PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — Kitsap County prosecutors on Monday charged a 72-year-old man with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man who lived in the same Port Orchard, Wash., apartment complex.
Kitsap County sheriff’s detectives say Wallace G. Finlay called 911 early Saturday to report a burglar. He said someone had broken into his apartment and he fired four shots toward the intruder as he ran away, trying to hit his legs.
The body of Donald Axthelm was found in the complex several hours later.
The Kitsap County coroner’s office says Axthelm was shot in the back. His death was classified as a homicide after an autopsy Monday.
Friends say Axthelm worked as a painter and had an eight-month-old daughter with an ex-girlfriend.
