Police: Sequim double-murder suspect found dead inside apt.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. -- A double-murder suspect that had been holed up inside a Port Angeles apartment for several hours has taken his own life, Clallam County sheriff's officials said.
John Francis Loring is suspected of two killings in the Sequim and Diamond Point areas earlier this week.
Residents of several apartments in the complex, as well as those of four homes in the area of West 16th Street, had been evacuated for more than four hours while police tried to coax Loring out, the Peninsula Daily News reports.
Loring was suspected of killing 19-year-old David J. Randle at a home in Sequim Tuesday morning. And deputies are investigating a second murder -- a 65-year-old man who was found in the Diamond Point area late Tuesday afternoon, that could be connected.
“This is not a shooting for sure, but there's another dead body involved with this,” Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict told the Peninsula Daily News. "I know it was a homicide, but I think it occurred a couple of days ago.”
Benedicit said Loring was believed to be driving the Diamond Point victim's vehicle at the time of Randle's murder.
“I suspect the Diamond Point victim was killed before the (Dungeness) victim,” Benedict said.
Benedict said Loring fled westbound from the home in the 3900 block of Woodcock Road driving a 2001 white Dodge Dakota pickup truck with a white canopy. Benedict said Loring was believed to be carrying the handgun that was used to kill Randle.
Eyewitnesses told deputies that a man they identified as Loring approached the bright blue house at Woodcock Road and Meyer Andrew Lane. An altercation occurred in which at least one shot was fired, striking and killing the younger man, the Sheriff's Office said. One of the witnesses called 9-1-1 to report the shooting.
Loring knew the victim but was not related to Randle, said Benedict, who did not provide further information.
Loring was homeless and living in his truck but was previously served with a restraining order that prevented him from living at an earlier residence in Sequim, Benedict said.
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John Francis Loring is suspected of two killings in the Sequim and Diamond Point areas earlier this week.
Residents of several apartments in the complex, as well as those of four homes in the area of West 16th Street, had been evacuated for more than four hours while police tried to coax Loring out, the Peninsula Daily News reports.
Loring was suspected of killing 19-year-old David J. Randle at a home in Sequim Tuesday morning. And deputies are investigating a second murder -- a 65-year-old man who was found in the Diamond Point area late Tuesday afternoon, that could be connected.
“This is not a shooting for sure, but there's another dead body involved with this,” Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict told the Peninsula Daily News. "I know it was a homicide, but I think it occurred a couple of days ago.”
Benedicit said Loring was believed to be driving the Diamond Point victim's vehicle at the time of Randle's murder.
“I suspect the Diamond Point victim was killed before the (Dungeness) victim,” Benedict said.
Benedict said Loring fled westbound from the home in the 3900 block of Woodcock Road driving a 2001 white Dodge Dakota pickup truck with a white canopy. Benedict said Loring was believed to be carrying the handgun that was used to kill Randle.
Eyewitnesses told deputies that a man they identified as Loring approached the bright blue house at Woodcock Road and Meyer Andrew Lane. An altercation occurred in which at least one shot was fired, striking and killing the younger man, the Sheriff's Office said. One of the witnesses called 9-1-1 to report the shooting.
Loring knew the victim but was not related to Randle, said Benedict, who did not provide further information.
Loring was homeless and living in his truck but was previously served with a restraining order that prevented him from living at an earlier residence in Sequim, Benedict said.
Peninsula Daily News is a newspaper partner of KOMO News
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