SEATTLE (AP) — Lewis County officials say a third man has been arrested in connection with last weekend’s triple homicide in the Lewis County town of Salkum.
KOMO News reports that Robert Shawn Russell was arrested Thursday evening in Tumwater, Wash., as a person of interested in the shooting.
In a statement, Lewis County officials say Russell was arrested by a bond company.
Two other man have been arrested in the killings. On Wednesday, 31-year-old John Allen Booth Jr. of Onalaska was arrested in Spokane. On Monday, Ryan J. McCarthy was arrested in the Seattle suburb of Redmond.
Authorities believe the Booth may have been trying to collect on a drug debt. He’s accused of shooting 52-year-old David J. West Sr., his 16-year-old son, David Jr., both of Salkum, and 50-year-old Tony E. Williams, of Mineral.
