LONGVIEW — A 73-year-old Longview man is in custody after authorities say he killed his wife and then tried to kill himself.
The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office says Cleon Moen was arrested Sunday evening. He is to be booked into Cowlitz County Jail on investigation of first-degree murder once he is released from the hospital, where he was treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and dog bites.
After about 4 p.m. Sunday, deputies got a 911 call from one of Moen’s friend.
Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig says in a statement that Moen confessed to the friend that he had killed his wife. Rosenzweig says the friend found Moen outdoors with a hose running from the exhaust pipe of his pickup truck to a pump house outside his home.
SWAT officers and others responded and ordered Moen to surrender. When he refused, a police dog took the man to the ground and he was taken into custody.
