DEATH INVESTIGATION AT CHINOOK LANDING IN FAIRVIEW
News Release from Fairview Police Dept.
Posted on FlashAlert: July 16th, 2014 9:50 AM
On July 15, 2014 at approximately 1:41 P.M., the Fairview Police Department responded to a report of an unknown suspicious male subject driving alone in the parking lot of Chinook Landing at 5201 NE 223rd Avenue in Fairview. It was reported the subject had a rifle in the vehicle and he provided a private citizen an unknown amount of Canadian and American money in multiple denominations. He told the citizen he was dying of cancer and not to believe what they would say about him.
As the subject exited the east exit of the park in his vehicle, a Fairview Officer attempted to make contact with the driver. The officer observed the vehicle traveling in reverse as he approached it from the rear. There was an occupied school bus a short distance from where the vehicle was reversing. As a precautionary maneuver, the officer placed his patrol car between the bus and vehicle to prevent it from getting closer to the bus. It is unknown if the driver was attempting to harm the children on the school bus. No one on the school bus saw the incident nor was anyone injured.
The driver then immediately drove forward exiting towards the main exit of the park. Within a few seconds, the officer reported hearing a gunshot coming from inside the vehicle as it continued east bound out of the park. The vehicle drove about one hundred feet on the roadway, then down an embankment into a marsh wetland where it came to rest. Officers discovered the body of a man inside the vehicle. It appears the male driver died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The male driver has not been identified at this time pending further investigation by the Fairview Police Department and Medical Examiners' Office.
Sergeant Gary Kirby Fairview Police
As the subject exited the east exit of the park in his vehicle, a Fairview Officer attempted to make contact with the driver. The officer observed the vehicle traveling in reverse as he approached it from the rear. There was an occupied school bus a short distance from where the vehicle was reversing. As a precautionary maneuver, the officer placed his patrol car between the bus and vehicle to prevent it from getting closer to the bus. It is unknown if the driver was attempting to harm the children on the school bus. No one on the school bus saw the incident nor was anyone injured.
The driver then immediately drove forward exiting towards the main exit of the park. Within a few seconds, the officer reported hearing a gunshot coming from inside the vehicle as it continued east bound out of the park. The vehicle drove about one hundred feet on the roadway, then down an embankment into a marsh wetland where it came to rest. Officers discovered the body of a man inside the vehicle. It appears the male driver died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The male driver has not been identified at this time pending further investigation by the Fairview Police Department and Medical Examiners' Office.
Sergeant Gary Kirby Fairview Police
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