Wash. Police Chief Shoots, Kills Man

The police chief in the one-officer town of Reardan, Wash., shot a man to death Monday after responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle in a cemetery.

Dec. 21, 2011

The police chief in the one-officer town of Reardan, Wash., shot a man to death Monday after responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle in a cemetery.

The suspect, identified only asmale, died after "an exchange of gunfire" with Gary Redmond, said Trooper Troy Briggs, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. Redmond is a former Spokane County sheriff's deputy. He was fired after being arrested for drunken driving in 2000.

WSP detectiveswere investigating the shooting, which occurred just after 11 a.m.Monday at the Reardan Cemetery.

Briggs saidit was not yet known who fired first.

Staff report