PORT ANGELES — A woman who was spotted floating in Port Angeles Harbor after wading in fully clothed committed suicide, an autopsy concluded Wednesday.
The autopsy was conducted Wednesday morning, one day after she was pulled from the water about 50 yards offshore of the Valley Creek Estuary near the west end of downtown Port Angeles.
Police identified the woman as 31-year-old Heidi Lynn Richmond, who moved from the Forks area to Port Angeles in April.
The Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which also acts as the office of the county coroner, reported that a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Richmond determined she had died of drowning in a suicide.
Witnesses saw Richmond wade alone into the water near the estuary at about 9 a.m. Tuesday fully clothed, according to police.
