SEQUIM — Shawn Matthew Roe was carrying three guns — one of them Forest Service Officer Kristine Fairbanks’ 9 mm service weapon — when he was shot and killed in front of the Longhouse Market & Deli on Saturday.
Prior to his confrontation with Clallam County sheriff’s deputies at about 9:30 p.m. at the convenience store just east of 7 Ceders Casino in Blyn, Roe, 36, had fatally shot Fairbanks, 51, and Richard Ziegler, 59, Sheriff Bill Benedict said at a news conference in Sequim on Sunday.
A warrant was pending — but not yet approved by the courts — for Roe before he killed two people, the sheriff said.
Fairbanks was shot in the Dungeness Forks Campground on U.S. Forest Service Road 2880 above Palo Alto and Louella roads, the sheriff said.
Ziegler was found shot to death on his lawn Jonrey Lane, just off Louella Road in the woods above Sequim Bay.
Benedict said Roe, whose last known residence was in Everett, was wanted in Mason County for failing to comply with probation requirements.
Roe’s probation officer had filed for a warrant, but the warrant had not been cleared before Saturday’s shootings.
Of the guns found on Roe’s body, Fairbanks’ weapon is the only one detectives had traced.
“We haven’t confirmed where the other guns came from,” State Patrol Capt. Steve Sutton said Sunday.
A rifle was spotted on the seat of the white pickup truck, registered to Ziegler, in which Roe drove to the gas station, Sutton said, but officers on Sunday, had not yet searched the truck for other weapons.
Both Clallam County deputies who shot Roe, Matt Murphy and Andrew Wagner, are on administrative leave, which is the procedure after any deputy’s weapon is discharged in the line of duty, Benedict said.
Clallam County sheriff’s deputies, State Patrol troopers and agents with the FBI — which is involved because the shooting was on federal land — continued to investigate on Sunday the three crime scenes.
The three agencies are among about 20 who helped in the search for Fairbanks’ killer on Saturday.
