Early morning fire at apartment injures 2
A little girl was injured in an apartment fire early Sunday, according to the Spokane Fire Department.
The child, believed to be 3 or 4, was trapped on the second floor of the building at 307 E. Nora when the fire was reported at 1:12 a.m., firefighters said. As crews attacked the flames from the back of the structure, a rescue team used a ladder to go in through the front and found the child on the floor of the living room. She suffered burns to her hands and head and was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center, according to Mike Inman, battalion chief. An adult was also injured in the fire.
Inman said he believed the girl was flown to Harborview Medical Center’s burn unit in Seattle. Neither victim’s name was released Sunday evening.
The blaze was brought under control within 30 minutes and heavily damaged the top floor. The cause remains under investigation, although the owner’s son, Don Clayville, said a pillow leaning against a baseboard heater was reportedly to blame.
More than 30 firefighters from nine companies fought the blaze.
– Becky Kramer
Seattle
Man who shot deputy was felon, report says
The gunman who shot and fatally wounded a King County deputy sheriff responding to a shooting in White Center was a convicted felon, the Seattle Times reported.
King County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office declined to confirm the identity of Raymond O. Porter, 23, of Burien. The medical examiner’s office was conducting an autopsy and expected to release the gunman’s name today.
Deputy Steven Cox died Saturday from a gunshot wound to the head while interviewing partygoers at a residence south of West Seattle.
According to the newspaper, Porter has a criminal history dating to 1997, including convictions for drug manufacturing, assault, escape and being a felon in possession of a gun. He had been sentenced to jail or prison nine times and was most recently released in August.
– Associated Press
Clarksville, Tenn.
Body found in river is Bellingham man’s
A body recovered from the Cumberland River was identified Sunday as a missing Fort Campbell soldier from Washington state.
Spc. Jessiah Jameson, 21, of Bellingham, disappeared Nov. 16, two days after returning on leave from Iraq.
Chris Grey, an Army Criminal Investigations Command spokesman, confirmed the identity Sunday.
An autopsy was conducted, but Grey said the cause of death is pending.
The body was recovered Friday morning after being spotted by a barge operator on the river downstream from Clarksville, which neighbors the large Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
Jameson was last seen at the Kickers Country Club in Clarksville. He was kicked out of the club for being drunk and took a cab to his nearby hotel, authorities said. The cab dropped him off at the hotel, but he had not been seen since.
– Associated Press