CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) — The Lewis County coroner has scheduled an inquest in October in Chehalis to answer questions about the 1998 shooting death of former Washington State Trooper Ronda Reynolds at her home in Toledo.
Coroner Warren McLeod says the inquest jury will be asked to determine the manner of death.
Reynolds’ death was initially ruled a suicide by the coroner at the time, Terry Wilson. Reynolds’ mother, Barb Thompson, believes the death was a homicide. She sued, and in 2009 a jury found Wilson erred. The coroner appealed, and the case is before a state appeals court, which decided to wait for the inquest.
When McLeod took office this year he reclassified the cause of death from suicide to undetermined.
