VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The new Lewis County coroner has reclassified the death of a former state trooper from suicide to undetermined.
The Seattle Times reports that newly-elected coroner Warren McLeod submitted an affidavit Monday to change the death certificate of 33-year-old Ronda Reynolds. McLeod says he’ll review the entire case.
Reynolds was found shot in the head in 1998 at her Toledo home.
Her mother Barb Thompson believes the death was a homicide and filed a civil lawsuit seeking to overrule Coroner Terry Wilson. In 2009, a jury found Wilson erred in ruling the death a suicide. The coroner appealed the decision.
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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com
