Seattle Times: 2 people killed and two deputies wounded in shootout at Walmart in Port Orchard

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By Jonathan Martin, Jennifer Sullivan and Michael Berens
Seattle Times staff reporters


PORT ORCHARD, Kitsap County — Two women walked out of a Port Orchard Walmart on Sunday to find themselves in the middle of a shootout that left two people dead and two Kitsap County sheriff's deputies injured.

Destany Droge, 22, of Bremerton, and Emmili Jones, of Federal Way, 20, say they had just put Jones' 2-month-old son into his car seat when they noticed two deputies confronting a heavyset man nearby. The man, they said, took off running toward a wooded area. Then, in midsprint, they say, he pulled out a gun and fired behind his back without turning.

The women said two male deputies fell to the ground as the gunman staggered away and collapsed on the pavement. A young woman then ran into the chaotic scene toward the gunman, falling near him after being shot, Droge and Jones said.

It won't be clear who killed the young woman, who the sheriff's office says may have been in her teens, until autopsies are completed, law-enforcement officials said. However, Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Scott Wilson said a third deputy, a woman who has been on the force nearly 10 years, shot and killed the gunman. She wasn't hurt. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014020216_shooting24m.html

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2. Just another isolated incident. Move along, nothing to see here. nt