CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) — An inquest beginning Monday in Chehalis may settle questions about the 1998 shooting death of former Washington State Patrol Trooper Ronda Reynolds at her home.
The coroner ruled the death a suicide. But Reynolds mother, Barb Thompson, went to court the next year to clear her daughter’s name, and a jury found she did not kill herself. The coroner did not change the death certificate.
Now a new Lewis County coroner, Warren McLeod, hopes to settle the question.
Thompson wants a ruling that her daughter’s death was a homicide.
KOMO-TV reports (http://bit.ly/qsx0FU ) that if the inquest jury concludes Reynolds was killed it will be asked to name a suspect.
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Information from: KOMO-TV, http://www.komotv.com/
