The suspect had not been located as of Friday morning. "What's scary is that I spent the last two years as a legislator looking at this and arguing with them and now I am experiencing it firsthand and that is devastating," he said. He said he's had "a front row seat" to decisions aimed at police reform that are actually making communities more dangerous. He worries Centralia is losing its small town feel due to a broader spike in crime he attributes to decisions being made in the Legislature. He noted that in recent weeks his vehicle has been prowled, several vehicles were damaged near his office in downtown Centralia and an attempted catalytic converter theft a few blocks away resulted in an abandoned police pursuit due to changes in state law. "I heard three shots, just 'boom, boom, boom' and then it just tore off," he recalled.Ībbarno said the shooting was jarring for his family, especially since it's just the latest in a string of crimes in the area. He first heard the sound of a speeding vehicle before it stopped in front of his house. The shooting occurred right outside the home of Peter Abbarno, a Republican state lawmaker and Centralia-based attorney. "They were all around the neighborhood for quite a while, talking to people and checking things out, so I'm very impressed with them." "The police came over real quick," Kale told The Chronicle. And that's when we called the police," he said.ĭetectives thoroughly searched Kale's residence on Thursday but did not find the bullet that broke the window, according to Kale. "Then we started thinking about, 'Wow, we heard those shots last night - that must have been that. Thursday morning, Kale and his wife awoke to find a hole in their porch window. Law enforcement officers with the Olympia Police Department and the Thurston County Sheriff's Office then contacted the vehicle's registered owner and learned the vehicle had been stolen, according to the news release.ĭeputies with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office later found the vehicle abandoned in the 3500 block of state Route 702 near McKenna, according to the news release. Law enforcement then began investigating and learned a shooting had occurred on North Washington Avenue, according to the news release. They lost track of the vehicle when it got onto northbound Interstate 5.Īt approximately 11:54 p.m., dispatch advised Centralia police of a shooting complaint in the 600 block of West Maple Street, close to the area where officers encountered the vehicle that fled from them, according to the news release. on June 8, an officer with the Centralia Police Department observed the suspect's vehicle speed past him at approximately 65 mph in a 25 mph zone, running multiple stop signs and red lights, according to the news release.Īt the time, officers did not know about the vehicle's involvement with the shooting and because reckless driving was the only probable cause the officers had for an arrest - which is not a permissible cause for a vehicle pursuit under state law - the officers did not pursue. Shortly after the shooting, at approximately 11:52 p.m. And then I started thinking, 'well, was it backfires? Was it firecrackers?" I looked outside and didn't see anything. "All of a sudden we heard what sounded like four, five, six shots and the cats got real scared and jumped off the bed. William Kale and his wife were asleep inside their home in the 100 block of North Washington Avenue when the sound of gunfire woke their cats, Kale recalled to The Chronicle on Friday.
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Investigators do not believe the suspect was firing at the other driver or at any of the houses in the area, according to Denham, though law enforcement later determined a bullet hit the front patio window of a home in the area. "The person identified was well outside where he'd normally be," Denham said, later adding, "There's no indication that he knew anybody in the area." "There's no reason for it to be a drive-by shooting," said Denham, adding that by definition, drive-by shootings require the suspect to fire on a targeted person. While the incident was initially reported as a drive-by shooting, the investigation has revealed that likely wasn't the case, according to Denham. The suspect drove the vehicle to Centralia and was driving on West Maple Street when another driver who was traveling to work reportedly pulled up behind his vehicle, according to Denham.Īt that point, the suspect allegedly fired three shots into the air to "scare" the other driver. Thurston County law enforcement have identified the vehicle as a white 2014 Subaru Impreza.
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