PORT ANGELES — Police have identified the man shot to death Tuesday night as Gerald D. Howell, 40, of Port Angeles.
Howell lived in the house at 130 W. 11th St. where the shootings occurred, Port Angeles Police Sgt. Barb McFall told the Peninsula Daily News.
Gary Borneman, 39, of Port Angeles remained in police custody at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after allegedly shooting Howell.
A Port Angeles police officer is at Harborview with Borneman, McFall said.
Police had found Borneman outside the residence, armed and with bleeding hands, police said.
“It was a close-quarters battle of some kind,” McFall said.
It is still unclear whether a woman who told authorities that she had been kidnapped lived at Howell’s residence.
Earlier report:
By Rob Ollikainen
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — One man is dead and another is in custody after an apparent shooting in Port Angeles, city police said Tuesday night.
Gary Borneman, 39, of Port Angeles was in police custody at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after allegedly shooting a man he knew on the 100 block of West 11th Street, Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said.
Smith did not identify the dead man.
Dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call from a woman at the residence asking for help at 7:10 p.m. Police determined that the woman had been a kidnapped and had escaped, Smith said.
“Her voice was real faint,” Smith told the Peninsula Daily News at the crime scene.
An armed Borneman was found outside the residence bleeding from the hands and arrested, Smith said.
“[Police] had enough facts to determine that he’s responsible for why they got the 9-1-1 call,” Smith said.
The body of the man, who was shot in the head, was found inside the residence.
“We don’t have any unaccounted for people that we know of,” Smith said.
“Everybody involved here knew each other, so we don’t have a ‘stranger crime.’”
Police said Tuesday night that they have not yet determined whether the dead man lived at the house, but they do know that Borneman did not reside there and the two men knew each other.
City police and a State Patrol evidence recovery team are combing the crime scene today.
“We’re going to be here for the next 12 to 18 hours,” Smith said Tuesday night.
A neighbor who did not want to be identified said she heard commotion coming from the house where the shooting occurred, followed by a swarm of police activity.
