ALGER, WA: SIX SHOT, TWO WOUNDED, SUSPECT CAPTURED

Scott Terrell / Skagit Valley Herald
Washington State Patrol troopers and a Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy lead a shooting suspect to the county jail Tuesday afternoon after he led authorities on a high speed chase from Alger to Mount Vernon. Six people were killed in a shooting rampage in Skagit County. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald)

A suspect vehicle, metallic tan GMC pickup truck, is seen leaving southbound on Interstate 5 at the Kincaid Street exit in Mount Vernon, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The Washington State Patrol says six people are dead and two are wounded after a shooting rampage. Authorities say the suspect turned himself in after the shootings Tuesday afternoon. A sheriff's deputy is among the dead. (AP Photo/Skagit Valley Herald, Scott Terrell)

THOMAS JAMES HURST / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Local Sheriffs and police drive down Silver Creek Drive in Alger in Skagit County where several people are reported murdered in a killing spree and car chase on I-5.

JIM BATES / THE SEATTLE TIMES
One of the victims of the shooting spree remains in his car, where it came to rest in the median of I-5 just south of the Alger Exit.

Six people killed, two wounded in Skagit County
By CASEY MCNERTHNEYP-I REPORTER

P-I reporter Casey McNerthney can be reached

at 206-448-8220 or caseymcnerthney@seattlepi.com.

MOUNT VERNON -- Six people were killed, including a Skagit County Sheriff's deputy, in a Tuesday afternoon shooting rampage orchestrated by a man police had previously identified as "possibly mentally disturbed."

Two people also were wounded in what appears to be a series of shootings in seven different Skagit County locations, authorities said.

Among the wounded was a State Patrol trooper who was grazed in the arm during a high-speed chase down southbound Interstate 5. His injuries were not considered life threatening.

State Patrol trooper Keith Leary said several law enforcement agencies were processing seven scenes and still trying to sort out basic details at 6:30 p.m.

The incident began at 2:19 p.m. when police were called to a disturbance in the 19500 block of Silver Creek Drive near the town of Alger, he said. Troopers did not specify what kind of disturbance it was.

The deputy was killed there, as was another person and two construction workers believed to be working at the house.

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The suspected shooter had been on a Skagit County Sheriff's Office watch list, Leary said.

"From what we were told, he was just going down the road and shooting at people," Leary said.

I'LL TRY TO GET AN UPDATE ON THIS LATER THIS WEEK...

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