<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of KOMO News (Seattle, Washington) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://komonews.com/news/local/3-dead-in-shooting-near-lacey">http://komonews.com/news/local/3-dead-in-shooting-near-lacey</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Lato, arial; line-height: 66px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">3 dead, 1 wounded in shooting near Lacey</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LACEY, Wash. -- Three people are dead and a fourth person was wounded in a shooting near Lacey that might have happened several hours before it was reported to police.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dispatchers received a 911 call around 5:15 a.m. Wednesday from a man stating he had been shot and his friends were dead, according to Chief Dave Pearsall with the Thurston County Sheriff's Office.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The caller couldn't give an exact location where he was, but deputies eventually tracked him down to the 500 block of Dutterow Road, where they found the man on the ground with a gunshot wound to his stomach. He was rushed to St. Peter's Hospital in Olympia where officials said he was in surgery but in stable condition.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Deputies searched the property and found the bodies of two men and a woman who had been fatally shot inside a travel trailer, Pearsall said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pearsall didn't have any further details on the motive for the shooting or if any suspects were in custody.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Neighbor Jan Phipps told KOMO News she actually heard three shots fired around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"My boyfriend (and I) were standing out here and we heard three gunshots," Phipps said. "It was pop, pop, pop."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She says she didn't hear any screams or noises before the shots and admits she didn't think to call 911.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"A couple of years ago there were some pretty bad people over there and they used to shoot their guns off and they liked to shoot fireworks off," Phipps said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the meantime, as investigators try to sort out whether the gunman is still on the loose or among the victims, they're asking for help from the public.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We're asking the public if they hear or see anything suspicious to give us a call," Pearsall said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 30px;">---------------------------------</p></div><div><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs so eloquently states . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"How high's the water, mama? </span></div><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: start;">Three feet high and risin'."</div></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>