PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - Authorities have identified a Salt Lake City man as the person who ran from deputies before opening fire in a Walmart parking lot in Port Orchard, sparking a shootout that killed him and a young woman and wounded two deputies.
The Washington State Patrol says the man is 31-year-old Anthony A. Martinez.
State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom says the identity of the woman has not yet been verified.
Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor, speaking outside Tacoma General Hospital, said both deputies are expected to recover from their injuries. One was released from the hospital this afternoon.
Sunday's violence came after the Kitsap County Sheriff's deputies answered a call about a suspicious person at the store in Port Orchard.
Two male deputies located the man and tried to talk to him but he began running, pursued by the officers.
"For reasons not yet known, the suspect turned and fired multiple shots," sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson said.
Both men were hit and were unable to return fire, but a female officer arriving on the scene shot and killed the gunman, Wilson said.
The female deputy also shot a young female, who died later at a Tacoma hospital.
The State Patrol has talked to police in Utah. Authorities say Anthony Martinez was wanted in Utah in connection with the disappearance of a 13-year-old runaway in South Salt Lake City. The pair were also reported driving a blue van that was the same model as a van towed from the scene of the shooting.
"We believe that she and the deceased gunman knew each other, that they were together. We just have not yet established what that relationship was," Wilson added.ORIGINAL SOURCE
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